On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 03:42:38PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > I have not managed to wrapo my mind around the POSIX spec for which > uses of -perm +... actually conflict with POSIX and which should > continue to work. (NEWS: "Old usages will still continue to work, so > long as they don't conflict with POSIX.")
Simply put - if the mode string, beginning with +, has a meaning in POSIX, then it is treated as an exact-match test. Only if the mode is not valid under POSIX is '+mode' treated like '/mode'. James. _______________________________________________ Bug-findutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-findutils
