setgid problems again

[takkaria]

> ii) I compiled with --with-setgid=games. angband could write a
> savefile, but then would just create a new character each time I
> started up the game again. From strace:
> stat64("/var/newangband/share/angband/save/1024.Matthew", 0xbf824300) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
> 
> I'm not quite sure why that's happening - the directory was created
> d---rwx--- root:games and the executible -rwxr-sr-x root:games
> 
> So, something's wrong with the savefile/setgid handling, and I feel
> angband really ought to produce an error message in these
> circumstances, rather than silently creating a new character.

[anonymous]

Doesn't strace disable setgid?

[takkaria]

I actually have no idea what's going on here, since the game definitely errors if it can't read an existing savefile. Going to mark it as invalid and see if it crops up again.