/tmp sticky bit differences on FreeBSD 8

Artis Caune artis.caune at gmail.com
Wed Sep 16 19:42:33 UTC 2009


2009/9/16 Matthew Seaman <m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk>:
>> On FreeBSD 6,7 files are created with wheel group, but on 8 - with `gid`.
>
> It seems that ZFS uses SysV group semantics (new files get the 1ary group of
> the user unless the directory is set to SGID).  UFS filesystems on 8.x still
> behave in the expected BSD way (new files get the same group as the
> directory unless the user is not a member of that group, when they get the
> users' 1ary group).
>
> There's a thread 'ZFS Group ownership'  on this topic in freebsd-hackers at ...
> at the moment.
>

hmm, I use ZFS on FreeBSD 7, but still get wheel group and not egid.




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