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Date: 06 Mar 2002 15:36:22 -0800
From: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net>
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Subject: chmod(1) page misleads by use of "regardless" (re sticky bit).
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>Number:         35605
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       chmod(1) page misleads by use of "regardless" (re sticky bit).
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    keramida
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Mar 06 15:40:01 PST 2002
>Closed-Date:    Thu Jul 11 18:59:26 PDT 2002
>Last-Modified:  Thu Jul 11 18:59:26 PDT 2002
>Originator:     Gary W. Swearingen
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE i386
>Organization:
none
>Environment:
n/a
================
>Description:

The sticky bit explanation can be read to imply that the permissions on
the directory are ignored when the owner tries to delete his own files.
(They are not.)

================
>How-To-Repeat:
n/a
================
>Fix:

Simply remove ", regardless of the permissions on the directory".

Optionally, make it verbose by replacing that with: ", but only if
otherwise allowed, given the permissions and ownership".
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: keramida 
State-Changed-When: Thu Jul 11 18:57:45 PDT 2002 
State-Changed-Why:  
I removed the text in question, and added a reference to chmod(2) and 
sticky(8) instead.  This is the way it's done in NetBSD already, and 
it seems better to use existing references instead of duplicating text 
that we already have elsewhere [in better words too]. 


Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-doc->keramida 
Responsible-Changed-By: keramida 
Responsible-Changed-When: Thu Jul 11 18:57:45 PDT 2002 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=35605 
>Unformatted:
