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- Submitted-by: karish@mindcraft.com (Chuck Karish)
-
- In article <18296@cs.utexas.edu> alex@am.sublink.org (Alex Martelli) writes:
- >So, what DOES Posix say about this (open(), write(),
- >cat, shell redirection, and permission bits), and what SHOULD it say?
-
- POSIX.1 clause 5.6.1.2, descriptions of S_ISUID and S_ISGID bits: "On
- a regular file, this bit should be cleared on any write."
-
- Note the word "should". This is a recommendation to implementors, not
- a requirement.
-
- BSD 4.3 write(2) man page: "If the real user is not the super-user,
- then write() clears the set-user-id bit on a file."
-
- Interactive man pages for stat(2), write(2), and chmod(2) are silent on
- this issue.
-
- POSIX.2 is pretty much constrained to accept as valid behavior that's
- allowed/suggested by POSIX.1. I don't think there are any requirements
- that the utilities second-guess and defeat the file access policies
- that could legitimately be imposed by an underlying POSIX.1 operating
- system.
-
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