On 03/31/2011 12:54 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 03/31/2011 11:25 AM, Christian wrote: >> and using "0755" is explicit enough, isn't it ? > > Unfortunately it's not that simple, as having 0755 mean > something different from 755 would violate the principle > of least surprise. Please see the thread starting at > . Oddly enough, I see that my proposal for an explicit 00755: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-07/msg00130.html came up back then as well, but without any action yet. ;) -- Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org