ISC 2.2.1 groups != Sun/BSD groups (+ patch)

[Uwe Doering]

sef at kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:

>In article <6UQPL0V at geminix.in-berlin.de> gemini at geminix.in-berlin.de (Uwe Doering) writes:
>>In this
>>POSIX start-up file there is a call to the POSIX function __setostype().
>
>This is not a function specified by POSIX.
>
>>For instance, giving away file ownerships to other users is allowed
>>for every user under SysVr3. Under POSIX, only root can do that.
>
>Not true.  POSIX allows either (standard SysV or BSD-style) behaviour.  FIPS
>took the "option," thus requiring, for certain government bids, the OS to
>restrict chgrp's (and chown's).  SCO allows this to be set on a
>per-individual basis, incidently; one of the few things I like about the
>SecureWare stuff.

Well, I may be wrong about what feature is POSIX, and what is not (as my
description is only based on what ISC has implemented), but this doesn't
prevent the patch from working. :-)

     Uwe
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