Subject: Re: bug#8391: chmod setuid & setguid bits

From: Eric Blake <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 13:15:41 -0600

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

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.  ;)

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