* Thomas Bushnell, BSG writes:
> James Morrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Taking a brief look at fth.defth it looks like each node can have
>> an author, do any tools currently support getting/setting this
>> value?
> I don't think so. We need a chauthor program for GNU fileutils.
Funny that you should mention that.
I am currently working on adding some support for the flags that we support.
Already added this support to ls:
- Print the "unknown permission bits" (what is the official name for this?).
- Print the author stuff (the option -E/--author will enable this)
- Show if an translator is attached to an inode, I don't know if I should
keep this.
And I am working on setting the permission bits with chown, and changing the
author bit with chown (chown owner:group:author?), and will probably implement
the chauth (I think thats a better name then chauthor) program.
And when I am done with that, I will move to fix GNU sh-utils (id,
and all that).
The current output for `ls -lE' on a normal file looks something like this:
-rw-r--r--r-- 1 ams users ams 157 Feb 10 21:35 stat.c
If the there is an passive translator it would look like the following:
trw-r--r--r-- 1 ams users ams 157 Feb 10 21:35 foobar
I was thinking on maybe removing all the "normal" UNIX file modes and only have
ones for active/passive translators, and showing output similar to when
you have a symlink (this will only work for passive translators):
trw-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root root 0, 0 Dec 27 22:25 /dev/null =>
/hurd/null
Note, I used => instead of the normal -> to show that it is really different.
Any opinions about this? Anything that was I forgot to add? :-)
--
Alfred M. Szmidt
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