[rhelv6-list] found a chmod bug in rhel 6.0

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Thu Mar 24 17:40:41 UTC 2011


Once upon a time, Paul Krizak <paul.krizak at amd.com> said:
> And I don't know of a good reason for the behavior change.

While the behavior is documented in the man page, I don't know why it is
that way (why you'd want it changed).  It is allowed by the Single Unix
Specification; it says (under the octal mode description):

   For other file types, it is implementation-defined whether or not
   requests to set or clear the set-user-ID-on-execution or
   set-group-ID-on-execution bits are honored.

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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
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