bug#43162: closed (chgrp clears setgid even when group is not changed)

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has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #43162,
regarding chgrp clears setgid even when group is not changed
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> chgrp clears setgid even when group is not changed
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> Tue, 1 Sep 2020 15:25:45 -0600
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> Is it necessary for chgrp to clear setgid on directories even when the
> group is not actually changed? In my life at least, it is rather
> annoying. --thanks, karl.
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> $ mkdir foo
> $ chmod g+s foo
> $ ls -ld foo
> drwxrwsr-x 2 karl root 6 Sep  1 10:36 foo/
> $ chgrp root foo
> $ ls -ld foo
> drwxrwxr-x 2 karl root 6 Sep  1 10:36 foo/
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> On 9/1/20 3:30 PM, Karl Berry wrote:
> > I was on centos7.
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> >      (I don't observe your problem on my Fedora 31 box, for example).
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> > Maybe there is hope for a future centos, then.
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> Maybe. Or it could be a filesystem or mounting issue. My filesystem was ext4 
> mounted rw,relatime,seclabel, for what it's worth.
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> Anyway, closing the bug report.
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