mkdir and access(2)

[James Van Artsdalen]

IN article <4190 at chinet.UUCP>, les at chinet.UUCP (Leslie Mikesell) wrote:
> Cpio uses system(mkdir) which gives the directory to the real
> user which happens to be the one who originally started the process
> (even in SysVr3 where it doesn't have to!).

/bin/mkdir on my SysVr3 system isn't suid to anything.  Hence I assume it
works by creating directories via mkdir(2) and then giving them away to the
real uid and gid.  I don't think much would break if you replaced /bin/mkdir
with one that didn't give away the resulting directory.
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