On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, you wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 11:06:14AM +0200, Graham Wheeler wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > We've just noticed something strange here, that probably has a mundane
> > explanation but we can't figure it out. On a 2.2.8 FreeBSD system, if anyone
> > creates a file in /tmp, the group gets set to `bin'. The SGID bit is not set,
> > so that doesn't explain it. Does anyone know why this happens? Unfortunately
> > I don't have immediate access to any other releases to see if it is
> > release-specific.
> >
> That's what BSD just does - see open(2):
>
> When a new file is created it is given the group of the directory which
> contains it.
That's pretty weird (but quite correct). Just checked on NetBSD and found
the same. I would have expected this behaviour only if the SGID bit was set,
not by default.
Ah, well, live and learn (and use chown());
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