groups, directories, and file creation

david Casperson dgcasperson at violet.waterloo.edu
Fri Sep 22 07:46:29 AEST 1989


Could someone explain to me how UNIX chooses the group of a newly
created file?  I am also curious what the setgid and setuid bits mean
on a directory.  I have tried to find the above information in the man
pages, but perhaps i have been looking in the wrong place.

                          --david



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