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Re: -perm +... What should still work, what should not?
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James Youngman |
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Re: -perm +... What should still work, what should not? |
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Sun, 2 Oct 2005 18:12:52 +0100 |
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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.