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...


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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
>
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