Bug 35605

Summary: chmod(1) page misleads by use of "regardless" (re sticky bit).
Product: Documentation Reporter: Gary W. Swearingen <swear>
Component: Books & ArticlesAssignee: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description Gary W. Swearingen 2002-03-06 23:40:01 UTC 
The sticky bit explanation can be read to imply that the permissions on
the directory are ignored when the owner tries to delete his own files.
(They are not.)

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Fix: 

Simply remove ", regardless of the permissions on the directory".

Optionally, make it verbose by replacing that with: ", but only if
otherwise allowed, given the permissions and ownership".
How-To-Repeat: n/a
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Comment 1 Giorgos Keramidas freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2002-07-12 02:57:45 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

I removed the text in question, and added a reference to chmod(2) and 
sticky(8) instead.  This is the way it's done in NetBSD already, and 
it seems better to use existing references instead of duplicating text 
that we already have elsewhere [in better words too].
Comment 2 Giorgos Keramidas freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2002-07-12 02:57:45 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-doc->keramida