From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 Description of problem: If I have a directory in a tmpfs partition, and the gid bit is set, files created in this directory will still have the user's default group rather than the group of the directory. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. mkdir /mnt/tmpfs/some_dir 2. chgrp other_group /mnt/tmpfs/some_dir 3. chmod g+s /mnt/tmpfs/some_dir 4. touch /mnt/tmpfs/some_dir/a_file 5. ls -l /mnt/tmpfs/some_dir/a_file Actual Results: The /mnt/tmpfs/some_dir/a_file is owned by my_group. Expected Results: The /mnt/tmpfs/some_dir/a_file should be owned by other_group. Additional info:
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