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From: Konstantinos Konstantinidis <kkonstan@duth.gr>
Subject: Re: bin/8060: install ignores the +X mode flag
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The following reply was made to PR bin/8060; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Konstantinos Konstantinidis <kkonstan@duth.gr>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, Studded@dal.net
Cc:  
Subject: Re: bin/8060: install ignores the +X mode flag
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 00:56:04 +0300

 Hello,
 
 This is not a bug, it's a feature; install creates a file and either
 sets permissions to 0755, or if -m is specified sets the permissions
 to whatever was requested *relative to 0000*. All but the last point
 are explicitly mentioned in the man page, which reads:
 
 -m  Specify an alternate mode.  The default mode is set to rwxr-xr-x
     (0755).  The specified mode may be either an octal or symbolic
     value; see chmod(1) for a description of possible mode values.
 
 Here's the relevant bit from chmod(1):
 
 +X  make a directory or file searchable/executable by everyone
     if it is already searchable/executable by anyone.
 
 It seems clear to me at least that since we're not modifying, but
 rather specifying permissions, there are no existing permissions
 to leave untouched, hence "+X" has no meaning whatsoever.
 
 Setting the permissions relative to those of the original file seems
 to me like a particularly bad idea, so there's nothing to fix.
 
 This PR can be closed
 
 --kkonstan

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