On 2020-10-08 10:28, Tomás Fernandes wrote:
Hello,
I've recently come across chmod's man page as someone who is not very
experienced (1st year CS undergrad), and found that the definition of
the
letter X in the man page a bit unclear, more specifically this part (in
bold):
execute/search only if the file is a directory or already has execute
permission
*for **some user* (X)
In my opinion this could be worded slightly better and more clearly as:
execute/search only if the file is a directory or already has execute
permission
*for **user, group or other* (X)
How about "X behaves like x if the object already has any execute
permission bit set, otherwise it has no effect."
