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| author | pjd <pjd@FreeBSD.org> | 2007-01-16 15:17:27 +0000 |
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| committer | pjd <pjd@FreeBSD.org> | 2007-01-16 15:17:27 +0000 |
| commit | 39f3fe7daf5b4cec90afbe413b53ae5f77acad42 (patch) | |
| tree | 6966c0863775283805235ec14e26ebeccd45ec5e /lib | |
| parent | 132337be8f66044643e913ec5105dbee302d630b (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-39f3fe7daf5b4cec90afbe413b53ae5f77acad42.zip FreeBSD-src-39f3fe7daf5b4cec90afbe413b53ae5f77acad42.tar.gz | |
When we try to set set-gid bit with chmod(2) on a file, which we own, but our
effective group ID (and any of our group) doesn't match the group ID of the
file, we get EPERM. This doesn't conform POSIX. POSIX requires that we should
return 0, but silently clear the set-gid bit.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/sys/chmod.2 | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/chmod.2 b/lib/libc/sys/chmod.2 index 0ff95a3..185463d 100644 --- a/lib/libc/sys/chmod.2 +++ b/lib/libc/sys/chmod.2 @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ .\" @(#)chmod.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd December 9, 2006 +.Dd January 16, 2006 .Dt CHMOD 2 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -175,6 +175,10 @@ Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname. The effective user ID does not match the owner of the file and the effective user ID is not the super-user. .It Bq Er EPERM +The effective user ID is not the super-user, the effective user ID do match the +owner of the file, but the group ID of the file does not match the effective +group ID nor one of the supplementary group IDs. +.It Bq Er EPERM The named file has its immutable or append-only flag set, see the .Xr chflags 2 manual page for more information. |
