[mdlug] SUID for a directory?

Ingles, Raymond Raymond.Ingles at compuware.com
Thu Feb 1 14:45:01 EST 2007


> From: Michael ORourke

> I googled it and the answers I am getting say 
> that the SUID bit is undefined for a directory.  Anyone have 
> any better answers?  My other thought is the author just made a simple 
> mistake when he wrote that command.

 Well, someone *might* come up with a use for that feature one day, and
if they do the command will already support it. See my .sig. :->

 Sincerely,

 Ray Ingles                                    (313) 227-2317

 "UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things,
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