setgid, at least, can be useful for non-root users who wish to share files with folks in a different group than is their default...
-- Gregory Warnes, Ph.D. Sr. Expert Modeler Modeling and Simulation CA Phone: +1 617 871-8498 gregory.war...@novartis.com On 8/15/12 11:56 AM, "Barry Rowlingson" <b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk> wrote: >On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Simon Urbanek ><simon.urba...@r-project.org> wrote: > >> >> ... and moreover with the increasing adoption of ACL on unix and >>non-existence of uid/gid on Windows this is more an archaic curiosity so >>I don't think it makes sense to add it at this point. >> > > It does however raise the question, "What is Hadley up to now?" :) > >Barry > >______________________________________________ >R-devel@r-project.org mailing list >https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel