On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 5:22 PM, Michai Ramakers <m.ramak...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Does this also explain my last mail (in case one file is owned
> root.wheel, and the other file and parent-dir are owned ftp.ftp, all
> works fine)?
>

Yes - because the file is owned by root, the "dropping of privileges" is
actually a no-op, in that we're dropping back from root to root. At least
that's my understanding of the code.

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