From: Rob Levin (Rob.Levin@f217.n3802.z1.fidonet.org)
Date: 09/03/92 

From: Rob.Levin@f217.n3802.z1.fidonet.org (Rob Levin)
Subject: clearing SUID bit on writes
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1992 08:10:00 -0800

 i> Careful! I don't know if you want to support mandatory record
locking,
 i> but if you do you need to keep the sgid bit set on writes if all
the
 i> execute bits are clear. I don't know anybody who's ever used
mandatory
 i> locking, so this may be a red herring, but it's worth thinking
about.

Mandatory locking is explicitly not supported by POSIX.1, if this
helps.

Rob L.

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