From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Mar 1 5:20:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (whale.sunbay.crimea.ua [212.110.138.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55DC237B71D; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 05:19:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ru@whale.sunbay.crimea.ua) Received: (from ru@localhost) by whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f21DJJ603448; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 15:19:19 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from ru) Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 15:19:19 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Ben Smithurst Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org, developers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: chmod +X Message-ID: <20010301151919.A860@sunbay.com> References: <20010301121035.B2447@comp.leeds.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010301121035.B2447@comp.leeds.ac.uk>; from csxbcs@comp.leeds.ac.uk on Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 12:10:35PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 12:10:35PM +0000, Ben Smithurst wrote: > According to > http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/basesrc/bin/chmod/chmod.1, the 'X' > mode specifier is specified by POSIX.2, but our manual page says it > isn't. Could someone who knows please confirm one way or the other so I > can fix our manual page if necessary? > IEEE P1003.2 Draft 11.2 - September 1991: | The perm symbol X shall represent the execute/search portion of the file | mode bits if the file is a directory or if the current (unmodified) file | mode bits have at least one of the execute bits (S_IXUSR, S_IXGRP, or | S_IXOTH) set. The current draft (IEEE Std 1003.1-200x Draft 5): | The perm symbol X shall represent the execute/search portion of the file | mode bits if the file is a directory or if the current (unmodified) file | mode bits have at least one of the execute bits (S_IXUSR, S_IXGRP, or | S_IXOTH) set. The text has not changed for almost 10 years. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message