From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 3 15:15:02 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4068716A4CE for ; Thu, 3 Jun 2004 15:15:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from therub.org (pantheon-ws-13.direct.hickorytech.net [216.114.200.206]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21F2843D2F for ; Thu, 3 Jun 2004 15:15:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drue@therub.org) Received: from drue by therub.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BW0UA-0005g9-00 for ; Thu, 03 Jun 2004 17:14:54 -0500 Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 17:14:54 -0500 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040603221454.GA21622@therub.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i From: Dan Rue X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 05:16:33 -0700 Subject: chmod features: +RW? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 22:15:02 -0000 Hey, I searched the archives, but haven't seen anything regarding this. I am interested in a feature addition to chmod for the equivalent of +X (Add x bit only if it's a dir), except for read and write (R and W?). I'm not sure how useful W would be - but R would be quite useful for allowing the reading and traversing of dirs without giving read permission to the contents of the dirs. I know you can do this with a find - that's what I've done in the past. I'm just wondering if this have been discussed, if it's a horrible idea, etc. If it's a good idea, I'll gladly write a patch - just let me know who to send it to. If this is the wrong mailing list, let me know that too. thanks, dan