svn commit: r187627 - head/bin/chmod
Tom Rhodes
trhodes at FreeBSD.org
Fri Jan 23 03:39:01 PST 2009
Author: trhodes
Date: Fri Jan 23 11:39:00 2009
New Revision: 187627
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/187627
Log:
Note the implication of setting the 'w' permission on directories,
while here, expand the 'naughty bits' comment in BUGS.
PR: 84265 and 84268
Reviewed by: keramida
Obtained from: hints from ceri, keramida
Modified:
head/bin/chmod/chmod.1
Modified: head/bin/chmod/chmod.1
==============================================================================
--- head/bin/chmod/chmod.1 Fri Jan 23 11:11:29 2009 (r187626)
+++ head/bin/chmod/chmod.1 Fri Jan 23 11:39:00 2009 (r187627)
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
.\" @(#)chmod.1 8.4 (Berkeley) 3/31/94
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd December 22, 2006
+.Dd January 23, 2009
.Dt CHMOD 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -281,6 +281,10 @@ Operations upon the other permissions on
``o'' by itself), in combination with the
.Ar perm
symbols ``s'' or ``t'', are ignored.
+.Pp
+The ``w'' permission on directories will permit file creation, relocation,
+and copy into that directory.
+Files created within the directory itself will inherit its group ID.
.Sh EXAMPLES
.Bl -tag -width "u=rwx,go=u-w" -compact
.It Li 644
@@ -343,4 +347,5 @@ command appeared in
.Sh BUGS
There is no
.Ar perm
-option for the naughty bits.
+option for the naughty bits which are ``S'' and
+``T'' respectively.
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