From 3b727ccb70d288b30d3af5d7964e703bc47b33fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 02:12:56 +0200
Subject: add a comment about sed and suid bits

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
---
 editors/sed.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/editors/sed.c b/editors/sed.c
index a5ef400fc..28f0c7318 100644
--- a/editors/sed.c
+++ b/editors/sed.c
@@ -1365,6 +1365,8 @@ int sed_main(int argc UNUSED_PARAM, char **argv)
 
 			/* Set permissions/owner of output file */
 			fstat(fileno(file), &statbuf);
+			/* chmod'ing AFTER chown would preserve suid/sgid bits,
+			 * but GNU sed 4.2.1 does not preserve them either */
 			fchmod(nonstdoutfd, statbuf.st_mode);
 			fchown(nonstdoutfd, statbuf.st_uid, statbuf.st_gid);
 			add_input_file(file);
-- 
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