Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Jul 1997 01:48:01 +0200 (CEST) | From | Felix Schroeter <> | Subject | Re: Filesystem: New files and directories inheirit group of their parent dir |
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Hello!
In article <9707081228.AA12341=aeb@violet.cwi.nl> you write: >Scott Tadman:
>: FreeBSD has an interesting filesystem feature that I like: When you create >: files and directories inside an existing structure, the group of the directory >: you are creating the file/directory in is applied to the new file/directory. > >: I've been looking for a patch for Linux which offers the same functionality, >: yet it doesn't seem to be out there.
>Maybe because no patch is required and it just works out-of-the-box? >Read mount(8), especially the part on ext2 mount options.
chmod g+s <the directory/ies to have BSD like behaviour>
Regards, Felix.
(Or the appropriate mount option, if you want it generally)
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