Note the implication of setting the 'w' permission on directories,

while here, expand the 'naughty bits' comment in BUGS.

PR:		84265 and 84268
Reviewed by:	keramida
Obtained from:	hints from ceri, keramida
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Tom Rhodes 2009-01-23 11:39:00 +00:00
parent 37af314cb9
commit cb30dc5538
Notes: svn2git 2020-12-20 02:59:44 +00:00
svn path=/head/; revision=187627

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@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
.\" @(#)chmod.1 8.4 (Berkeley) 3/31/94
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
.Dd December 22, 2006
.Dd January 23, 2009
.Dt CHMOD 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -281,6 +281,10 @@ Operations upon the other permissions only (specified by the symbol
``o'' by itself), in combination with the
.Ar perm
symbols ``s'' or ``t'', are ignored.
.Pp
The ``w'' permission on directories will permit file creation, relocation,
and copy into that directory.
Files created within the directory itself will inherit its group ID.
.Sh EXAMPLES
.Bl -tag -width "u=rwx,go=u-w" -compact
.It Li 644
@ -343,4 +347,5 @@ command appeared in
.Sh BUGS
There is no
.Ar perm
option for the naughty bits.
option for the naughty bits which are ``S'' and
``T'' respectively.