chmod and UNIX permissions

[Ken D'Ambrosio]

> pll at lanminds.com wrote:
[...]
>>This is on Solaris [2.5.]8/SunOS 5.8.  I know that you could set the
>> sgid bit in absolute mode on 2.5.1, and I'm pretty sure that it also
>> worked on 2.6.x.  Anyone have any idea when and why this changed?
>>
>>I wonder how many millions of shell scripts and other sysadmin tools
>> broke as a result of this :)

Well, I don't have a 2.5 box lying around (at least, one with a monitor,
keyboard, or NIC), but the WELL runs on 2.6, and it runs the same as the
later versions mentioned.

-Ken