Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 15:47:04 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@mobil.cz> To: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Modifying only certain bits with chmod Message-ID: <20011206154704.E97283@roman.mobil.cz> In-Reply-To: <20011206132237.GB9605@raggedclown.net> 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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> Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 14:22:37 +0100
> From: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net>
> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
> Subject: Re: Modifying only certain bits with chmod
>
> On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 12:39:54PM +0000, Jan Grant wrote:
> > On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Cliff Sarginson wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 10:51:28AM +0000, Jan Grant wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
> > > >
> >
> > It's _got_ another name; it's called "/usr/local/bin/chmod". If you're
> > running any scripts that don't sanitise their PATH first, then they are
> > broken and need fixing.
> >
> Possibly, but that is not the real world.
> 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.
>
> On the other hand, it is his system and he can do what he likes :)
>
> 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. I would harldy imagine many younger
> users are thinking octal these days..all they know about is this
> new fangled hexadecimal nonsense .. :)
I'm not that old, have been using FreeBSD for a couple of months
only, and yet I terribly miss an option that would make ls(1)
display perms in octal.
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