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- From: uunet!auspex!guy (Guy Harris)
-
- >Probably. But what about the existing applications that depend on the
- >semantics of the older SVID? Are they out of luck, or will they be somehow
- >grandfathered in?
-
- If you plan to run one of those applications:
-
- $ su
- Password:
- # #
- # # Optimizing this to run "chmod" only on directories with the
- # # set-GID bit set is left as an exercise for the reader.
- # #
- # find / -type d -exec chmod g-s {} ";"
- # exit
-
- and live with the old semantics (and don't mount any remote file systems
- that support the new semantics). You may be able to restrict this to
- only those directories in which the applications in question will create
- files - how many such applications really exist?
-
- If you don't want to, or can't, change the permissions on the
- directories in question, then yes, I suspect those applications, and
- you, are out of luck. At best, there *might* be a binary-compatibility
- hack, but I would not be surprised if there were none.
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 16, Number 25
-
-