[fhs-discuss] games/ as a separate directory

Jeff Licquia licquia at linuxfoundation.org
Fri May 6 18:54:28 PDT 2011


On 05/06/2011 09:29 PM, Karl Goetz wrote:
> why does the directory need to be sgid if just one game will be using
> it?
> (perhaps i misunderstand your comment?)

So new files are owned by group 'games' instead of the user's default group.

The whole business is needed even for one game because multiple users 
might play the same (single) game with, say, a shared high score file.

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