Subject: bug#8391: chmod setuid & setguid bits

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 11:54:26 -0700

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
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-07/msg00124.html>.