Re: mkdir() and group id

[Thomas Bushnell, BSG]

Marcus Brinkmann <marcus@gnu.org> writes:

> On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 02:15:53PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> > I was just told that the setgid bit does get inherited on the new
> > directories. 
> 
> Not in the Hurd, though.  I guess this would only be so if you activate
> the sysvgroups option (assuming you are cool with such an option)

Right.  If you want copy-gid-on-setgid, then you need to inherit
setgid.  If not, then not.

> That's not true.  On the Hurd, the group is always inherited, regardless
> if you are in the group or not.  Is this a bug?

No, I was just remembering incorrectly.  It's fine, though I think the
previous BSD behavior was as I described.