02-13-2006
Read Perderabo's article on Unix file permissions in the Tips and Tutorials section of the site. It is very informative. From that article, you will also get the answer to your question:
Quote:
Originally Posted by Perderabo
Every reference that I have seen says that setgid on / group execute off is a otherwise useless combination. Even Richard Stevens (in Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment) says "Since the set-group-ID bit makes no sense when the group-execute bit is off, the designers of SVR3 chose this way to specify that the locking for a file is to be mandatory locking and not advisory locking."
Note that if you want to know what mandatory and advisory locking are, you should read the man pages (check flock).
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NAME
rmcat - remove GNATS categories
SYNOPSIS
rmcat category [ category... ]
DESCRIPTION
Removes any named category from the GNATS installation. Before calling rmcat, you must first remove category from the list of categories
in the database. You must also reclassify or remove all problem reports associated with category (i.e., category's subdirectory must be
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SEE ALSO
Keeping Track: Managing Messages With GNATS (also installed as the GNU Info file gnats.info)
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pr(1), queue-pr(8), send-pr(1).
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August 2003 rmcat(8)