Re: [cobalt-developers] file permissions

["Robert G. Fisher" <rfisher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 08:19:50AM -0500, Gil DuPont wrote:
> > drwxrwsr-x
> 
> The above permission says that the file is a directory, and that the owner
> has r,w,x, the group has r,w,x, and everyone else has, r,x the s in the
> group permisions says that when the directory executes it executes as the
> GID of the directory, look at the group owner.

Actually, this means that any new file created in the directory 
will have the same GID of the directory it's in.  It amounts to
the same thing as on an executable, which runs with the same gid
as is set on the file.

Just, few people tend to think of 'a directory executing' as
opposed to 'creating a file beneath the directory'.

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Robert G. Fisher                  Sitestar.net, Inc. 
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