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Re: GNU sharutils generated archive license


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: GNU sharutils generated archive license
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2017 09:55:55 -0500
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On 08/13/2017 01:12 PM, Bruce Korb wrote:
>  
> +The valid "mode" option keywords are:
> +  xoth woth roth xgrp wgrp rgrp xusr wusr rusr rwxo rwxg rwxu xall wall rall

Rather than inventing new option keywords, can you please share code
with 'chmod' by using the gnulib module 'modechange', so that we get a
consistent way to specify string-ized modes?

> +  or an integer mask with any of the lower 9 bits set

Is this always interpreted in octal, even when a leading 0 is not present?

Again, using the gnulib module would take care of this.

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Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
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