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From: rogerk@mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Re: sticky-bit directories not working?
Message-ID: <41541@mips.mips.COM>
Date: 17 Sep 90 18:14:17 GMT
References: <1990Sep16.202103.8263@maytag.waterloo.edu>
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Reply-To: rogerk@mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese)
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In article <1990Sep16.202103.8263@maytag.waterloo.edu> gamiddle@maytag.waterloo.edu (Guy Middleton) writes:
>On an M/2000 with 4.50:
>
>	$ wmi
>	news@xxx.mfcf (Group other) on ttyp0 at /usr/home/gamiddleton/tmp
>	$ which mv
>	/usr/bsd43/bin/mv
>	$ ls -lgd
>	drwxrwxrwt  2 root     staff         512 Sep 16 16:07 .
>	$ ls -lg
>	total 0
>	-rw-r--r--  1 root     staff           0 Sep 16 16:07 blah
>	-rw-r--r--  1 news     staff           0 Sep 16 16:08 foo
>	$ mv blah foo
>	mv: blah: rename: No permission match
>	$ ls -lg
>	total 0
>	-rw-r--r--  2 root     staff           0 Sep 16 16:07 blah
>	-rw-r--r--  2 root     staff           0 Sep 16 16:07 foo
>
>Hmmm.  I just tried this with /bin/mv, and it work as expected (that is, it
>didn't work at all).  This seems strange, since one would expect both programs
>to work by using rename(2).

Sorry, I couldn't duplicate this:


Script started on Mon Sep 17 10:26:37 1990
csbug@servitude[1] whoami
csbug
csbug@servitude[2] ls -l /tmp/foo /tmp/bar
-rw-r--r--   1 rogerk   mips           0 Sep 17 10:22 /tmp/bar
-rw-r--r--   1 rogerk   mips           0 Sep 17 10:22 /tmp/foo
csbug@servitude[3] ls -ld /tmp
drwxrwxrwt   3 sys      sys        14848 Sep 17 10:26 /tmp
csbug@servitude[4] cd /tmp
csbug@servitude[5] mv foo bar
mv: cannot remove foo: Permission denied
csbug@servitude[6] /bsd43/bin/mv foo bar
override protection 644 for bar? y
mv: foo: rename: No permission match
csbug@servitude[7] ls -l foo bar
-rw-r--r--   1 rogerk   mips           0 Sep 17 10:22 bar
-rw-r--r--   1 rogerk   mips           0 Sep 17 10:22 foo
csbug@servitude[8] exit
csbug@servitude[9] 

script done on Mon Sep 17 10:27:26 1990
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