Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 14:58:29 +0100 From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> To: "Cliff Sarginson" <cliff@raggedclown.net>, "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Modifying only certain bits with chmod Message-ID: <00d501c17e5e$158221c0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <20011206122233.GB1111@raggedclown.net> <Pine.GSO.4.31.0112061238400.323-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> <20011206132237.GB9605@raggedclown.net>
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Cliff writes: > If Mr Atkielski's change is genuinely compatible > with existing chmod, and has been tested even > under the most pathological situations, then > he should submit it as a PR or whatever as an > improved version. How do I do that? > As a matter of fact I use octal masks rather > than symbolic arguments, but that is because > I am so old I can remember using Unix before > such fripperies were invented. Octal masks are easier to build than stings of arbitrary symbols. > I would harldy imagine many younger users are > thinking octal these days..all they know about > is this new fangled hexadecimal nonsense .. :) One can get used to both, although I still tend to think of ASCII in octal. On the other hand, Rad-50 was never amenable to mental interpretation, and I've forgotten EBCDIC (which I never really memorized, anyway). > I was reading about the impending arrival of > ACL's in FreeBSD 5 yesterday...talk about confusing > the children. Why would it be confusing? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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