Re: where are directory group permissions documented?

Johnny Billquist <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.help
Message-ID <[email protected]>
tor 2007-06-07 klockan 23.33 skrev Jeremy C. Reed:
> What man page(s) discuss that when a file is created it inherits the group 
> ID of its directory (instead of the gid of the creating process)?

open(2)

> Linux doesn't do that by default and calls it "BSD semantics". Linux can 
> enable that with S_ISGID bit.
> 
> Can it be disabled on a BSD system? In other words on NetBSD, how to make 
> it so new files are automatically created with the group of creating 
> process (instead of the group of the directory)? I am just curious and I 
> don't need this.

Don't seem to be a way of doing that. (by reading the man-pages anyway)

	Johnny
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