Re: new snapshot [Re: coreutils 6.9.92 fail to configure on *bsd

[Elias Pipping]

On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 01:54:58PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Elias Pipping <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> >   # ls -ld . f
> >   drwxr-xr-x  3 pipping  staff  11186 Jan 26 12:29 .
> >   -rw-r--r--  1 root     wheel      2 Jan 26 12:29 f
> >   # ./cp f g
> >   # ls -l g
> >   -rw-r--r--  1 root  staff  2 Jan 26 12:29 g
> 
> That suggests that the bogus group is set by cp's open call.  I suspect
> some sort of ACL mechanism that specifies "staff" as the default group --
> or maybe some rule says "inherit group from parent directory".

The latter seems to be the case.

> Do you see the same behavior if you run those commands in /tmp?
> (in place of "./", you'll need "/abs/path-to/coreutils-6.10/src/")

  # pwd
  /tmp
  # /Users/pipping/coreutils-6.10/src/id -a
  uid=0(root) gid=0(wheel) groups=0(wheel),1(daemon),8(procview),
      2(kmem),29(certusers),3(sys),9(procmod),4(tty),
      102(com.apple.sharepoint.group.2),5(operator),80(admin),20(staff),
      101(com.apple.sharepoint.group.1)
  # /Users/pipping/coreutils-6.10/src/rm -rf f g
  # echo a > f
  # /Users/pipping/coreutils-6.10/src/chown +0:+0 f
  # ls -ld . f
  drwxrwxrwt  9 root  wheel  374 Jan 26 15:10 .
  -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    2 Jan 26 15:10 f
  # /Users/pipping/coreutils-6.10/src/cp f g
  # ls -l g
  -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  2 Jan 26 15:11 g
  # 


-- Elias

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