As far as I remember, `s' stands for set{user,group}id and `S' denotes
the same, except that if you see a capital `S' the file doesn't have
execute permissions. Have things changed since 1985 (when I last
looked at the man)?
Regards,
-- Raju
>>>>> "deval" == deval <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
deval> when a file with "S" attribute set is modified, the changes
deval> are written synchronously on the disk. This is equivallent
deval> to 'sunc' mount option applied to a subset of files.
deval> (man chattrib)
deval> Vijay Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil wrote:
>> Hello My ls -l listing shows lines like this drwx--S--- 5
>> sunil sunil 4096 Dec 13 09:21 Desktop/ drwxr-sr-x 5 sunil sunil
>> 4096 Aug 24 07:28 GNUstep/ I know s bit is suid on files and x
>> permission on directory allows you to traverse. But what does s
>> and S mean on directories also what is the difference between S
>> and s sunil
--
Raju Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/
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