Comment 8 for bug 50568
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| Robey Pointer (robey) wrote Re: 'bzr push' does not preserve sgid bit on newly created directories | #8 |
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One feature of Linux's sgid-folders is that creating a nested folder automatically makes that folder setgid too. Since we can't set the sgid bit after doing a chmod, we lose that marker. For example, creating a deeply nested tree, we wouldn't have any sgid folders except the very top one, and we'd have to walk up toward the root, looking for a sgid folder, to see if we should change the group. Anyone not using bazaar to access the subtree would probably mess it up.
Interestingly, while trying this out, I found out that OSX and, apparently, all BSDs don't have a meaning for sgid on folders because they *always* make a folder's group equal to the parent folder's group. If bazaar followed that logic, we could ignore the sgid problem.