On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 07:57:38PM +0100, Jonathan Glaschke wrote: > Hallo, > > the manpage of chmod (3) says that the the perm symbol `X' is > not included in POSIX.2, but it is in POSIX (1003.1 2004). > > Maybe this could be updated, because 1003.2 is now integrated in > 1003.1 and 1003.1 has this `X'. > > http://www.unix.org/single_unix_specification/ > > "The perm symbol X shall represent the execute/search portion of the > file mode bits if the file is a directory or if the current (unmodified) > file mode bits have at least one of the execute bits (S_IXUSR, S_IXGRP, > or S_IXOTH) set. It shall be ignored if the file is not a directory and > none of the execute bits are set in the current file mode bits." > > Is this importent enough to mention it? >
i guess you mean chmod(1), rather than chmod(3) ;) just fixed this page. thanks for the mail. jmc
