To Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [direct emails rejected by mail.proulx.com] ============================
On Wednesday 21 November 2001 06:52, you wrote: > > This is a result of discussion on lkml on usefulness of x bit on dirs. > > It adds new flag to chmod: > > > > chmod -R a+R dir > > > > R=(r for files, rx for dirs) > > Would it be possible to give a little more rational behind this? I > don't see the need for this option. It doesn't mean you couldn't > convince me, however. > > > Without this flag, in order to achieve functionality of above command > > one needs to write ridiculously long script. > > Such as the following? What am I missing? > > chmod -R a+rX dir This will make all files a+r, all dirs a+rx, _and_ all files with at least one x bit set a+rx. I don't want those files to become world-executable! What if some of them are SUIDs? -- vda PS. I can't reach you Bob. Look: ================================================ Warning: could not send message for past 4 hours From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The original message was received at Wed, 21 Nov 2001 12:11:18 +0200 from [172.16.42.97] ----- The following addresses had transient non-fatal errors ----- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- Transcript of session follows ----- ... while talking to mail.proulx.com.: >>> RCPT To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <<< 450 Client host rejected: cannot find your hostname, [195.66.192.167] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Deferred: 450 Client host rejected: cannot find your hostname, [195.66.192.167] Warning: message still undelivered after 4 hours Will keep trying until message is 5 days old _______________________________________________ Bug-fileutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-fileutils
