From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 6 5:58:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73E8137B416 for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 05:58:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish (contactdish.atkielski.com [10.0.0.10]) by freebie.atkielski.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id fB6DwSx09435; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 14:58:28 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) Message-ID: <00d501c17e5e$158221c0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "Cliff Sarginson" , "FreeBSD Questions" References: <20011206122233.GB1111@raggedclown.net> <20011206132237.GB9605@raggedclown.net> Subject: Re: Modifying only certain bits with chmod Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 14:58:29 +0100 Organization: Anthony's Home Page (development site) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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