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[Pierre-François Gomez <pf.gomez AT free.fr>]

Hello,

Just giving my 2c while stumbling upon your discussion, here :

Benoit PAPILLAULT <benoit.papillault AT sourcemage.org> writes:

> However, the installer contains the following lines (which seems to be
> correct):
>
>    mkdir -p "${TARGET}/tmp" "${TARGET}/var/tmp" && chmod a+rwxt
>    "${TARGET}/tmp" "${TARGET}/var/tmp" &&
>
> How the directory can have suid/sgid bit then?

Theoretically, it can if there's a umask lurking around at the time of
the mkdir. In practice, i don't see how it would happen during install
:)

My point is : wouldn't it be less error-prone if the second line were
just reading :

chmod 1777 "${TARGET}/tmp" "${TARGET}/var/tmp" ?

HTH

-- Pierre-François Gomez