On Wednesday 03 October 2007, Paul Eggert wrote: > Jason Pepas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > was there a reason for this? I hardly think someone would put a > > leading octal 0 in by mistake... > > This came up in previous discussion, and the consensus at the time is > that leading zeros should not matter, just as they don't matter in > ordinary numeric representation. Other implementations disagree with > each other on this matter. Obviously there is no standard in this > area, so portable scripts shouldn't rely on any particular behavior > for "0755".
well, it is and it isnt ... POSIX is clear on the behavior with files, but says that it's up to specific implementations how they behave on directories ... it seems inconsistent to me that doing: chmod 0755 file behaves differently than: chmod 0755 directory yes, POSIX allows this, but it's hard to swallow the "leading zeros are irrelevant" logic when it gets qualified according to POSIX and becomes "when working on a file, leading zeros are significant, but when working on anything else, leading zeros are insignificant" -mike
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