Re: [LTP] Issue observed with chmod05, fchmod05 test cases

[Subrata Modak <subrata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 14:27 +0530, Sharyathi Nagesh wrote: 
> Garret
> 
> > 
> > Hi Yeehaw,
> >     1. You didn't provide sign-off, as noted in the DCO:
> > http://ltp.sourceforge.net/DCO.txt
> Excuse me for missing that out, if this patch format is okie I will resend it with the 
> sign-off included in it

Sharyathi, please resend this clean.

Regards--
Subrata

> >     2. This appears to be a legitimate documentation bug (at least as
> > far as the manpages for 2.6.29-r5 are concerned), because I can't find
> > a single reference to nobody in the manpage, as far as special
> > importance is concerned. Furthermore, looking at the OpenGroup's
> > documentation, I don't see anything there either:
> > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/functions/getgroups.html
> 
>   I am not very clear with what you are pointing at, but let me take a shot. bin and nobody 
> are 2 users used in the test case. I am not sure who or where it is getting created, but 
> what I did observe is that they don't have the same privileges. GID of bin is in the list of 
> supplementary group ids of root while nobody is not. If this is the case chmod/fchmod won't 
> clear S_IGSID bit of the file, as you can read from man page of chmod/fchmod.
>   Nobody won't be in any man page as this User was created by LTP, I suppose, to use in this 
> test case.
> Thanks
> Sharyathi N
> 
> 
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