John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > However, if the directory has mode 6755 and you > do "chmod 2755 dir", the mode remains 6755.
I hadn't thought of that example. It's a good illustration of an unfortunate corner in the current rules. But I can't think of a simple change to the rules that wouldn't introduce some of the other corners we've been talking about. One way to think about it is that the current rules are biased in favor of setting the setuid and setgid bits on directories, since you have to clear them with symbolic modes and cannot clear them with numeric. This can be thought of as a design policy: coreutils prefers sharing (sort of a corollary of the overall GNU philosophy). But it's a weak reed I admit. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
