From: "Rob Pike" <robpike@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: Re: [9fans] group permission
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 15:12:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7359f0490607301512v225ec7eala05574b7637cbf84@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ee9e417a0607301507w53ab74fck63d356b36c04ebcb@mail.gmail.com>
Nothing terrible might happen but the current design is a
well-considered choice. I'd like to be won over by a technical
argument before sanctioning a change.
-rob
On 7/30/06, Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> wrote:
> other defined permission and mode bits can. The gid can be
> changed: by the owner if also a member of the new group; or
> by the group leader of the file's current group if also
> leader of the new group (see intro(9P) for more information
> about permissions, users, and groups). None of the other
>
> I don't think anything terrible would happen if
> one deleted the text "if also a member of the new group"
> for the owner. Maybe it's a holdover from Unix worth
> getting rid of. It's almost certainly a one-line change
> to fossil.
>
> Russ
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-30 22:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-30 12:47 arisawa
2006-07-30 13:06 ` Sascha Retzki
2006-07-30 15:40 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-07-30 18:25 ` csant
2006-07-30 19:39 ` Russ Cox
2006-07-30 21:18 ` arisawa
2006-07-30 22:07 ` Russ Cox
2006-07-30 22:12 ` Rob Pike [this message]
2006-07-31 3:35 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-07-31 14:37 ` Russ Cox
2006-07-31 22:17 ` arisawa
2006-07-31 15:04 ` Victor Nazarov
2006-07-31 15:34 ` Wes Kussmaul
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