Re: mkdir() and group id

[Oystein Viggen]

* [Thomas Bushnell, BSG] 

> Right.  If you want copy-gid-on-setgid, then you need to inherit
> setgid.  If not, then not.

Obviously correct.  I was assuming that setgid was not inherited, but it
is.  Just to be sure, I tested it, too.

So we end up with the SysV/Linux way being able to emulate the BSD/Hurd
way, but no way of forcing the other way around. 

* [Marcus Brinkmann]
>> That's not true.  On the Hurd, the group is always inherited, regardless
>> if you are in the group or not.  Is this a bug?
* [Thomas Bushnell, BSG]
> No, I was just remembering incorrectly.  It's fine, though I think the
> previous BSD behavior was as I described.

As I previously said, there are Linux distributions that use group 0 as
the wheel group.  The easy solution is of course just telling the
distributors in question that this is a stupid idea on the Hurd, and
leave them to deal with it.

(Anyway, this is probably a non-issue, as the wheel on these systems is
mostly used to tell pam who is allowed to su to root)

I'm not really a strong advocate for any one of these ways, anyway, as
what we have today can be easily worked around if need be.  I think the
sigmonster really said it all this time  ;)

Oystein
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