On May 12 2007 12:07, Eric Blake wrote:
>
>According to Jan Engelhardt on 5/12/2007 8:50 AM:
>> Cc'ed bug-coreutils.
>> The following bug affects at least:
>> coreutils 6.4 (used in opensuse 10.2 - open a bug report here)
>> coreutils 6.9
>>
>> $ mkdir /dev/shm/me
>> $ strace -e chmod chmod 0755 me
>> chmod("me", 02755) = 0
>
>Not a bug, and this is becoming a FAQ. POSIX explicitly leaves the
>special mode bits undefined when using octal permissions. And the NEWS
>for coreutils 6.0 is quite explicit:
[...]
Then the manpgea is broken instead:;
A numeric mode is from one to four octal digits (0-7), derived by
adding up the bits with values 4, 2, and 1. Omitted digits are assumed
to be leading zeros, except that if the first digit is omitted, a
directory's set user and group ID bits are not affected.
Which seems to imply that if I specify a leading "0", they are affected.
Jan
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