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Re: suggestion for set-file-modes
From: |
Miles Bader |
Subject: |
Re: suggestion for set-file-modes |
Date: |
Sun, 17 Feb 2008 11:21:28 +0900 |
address@hidden (Michaël Cadilhac) writes:
>> That would be nice, maybe with separating every part even with the same
>> permissions, e.g. "u=rwx,g=rwx,o=rw" for less editing when the user and
>> group part need different permissions.
>
> Well, what if I need to remove writing rights for everybody? There's
> no canonical notation (why not `ugo=rw,ug+x', or `ugo=rwx,o-x'?), and
> it'd be painful for the user to first read the mode to see if it fits
> his needs, modify them if it's the case or apply a `,a-w' mask after if
> it isn't.
Geez, don't over-complicate things.
There's a perfectly good symbolic mode-input notation, easy to use and
easy enough to parse, we should use it. If we want to restrict it to
the absolute forms (using "=", not + or -) for simplicity, that's fine
too.
-Miles
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- Re: suggestion for set-file-modes, Michaël Cadilhac, 2008/02/11
- Re: suggestion for set-file-modes, Juri Linkov, 2008/02/16
- Re: suggestion for set-file-modes, Michaël Cadilhac, 2008/02/16
- Re: suggestion for set-file-modes, Juri Linkov, 2008/02/16
- Re: suggestion for set-file-modes, Michaël Cadilhac, 2008/02/16
- Re: suggestion for set-file-modes, Juri Linkov, 2008/02/16
- Re: suggestion for set-file-modes, Miles Bader, 2008/02/16
- Re: suggestion for set-file-modes, Juri Linkov, 2008/02/16
- Re: suggestion for set-file-modes, Michaël Cadilhac, 2008/02/16
- Re: suggestion for set-file-modes,
Miles Bader <=
- Re: suggestion for set-file-modes, Juri Linkov, 2008/02/17
- Re: suggestion for set-file-modes, Michaël Cadilhac, 2008/02/16
- Re: suggestion for set-file-modes, Richard Stallman, 2008/02/17
- Re: suggestion for set-file-modes, Michaël Cadilhac, 2008/02/17
- Re: suggestion for set-file-modes, Juri Linkov, 2008/02/17
- Re: suggestion for set-file-modes, Juri Linkov, 2008/02/17
- Re: suggestion for set-file-modes, Miles Bader, 2008/02/17
- Re: suggestion for set-file-modes, Juri Linkov, 2008/02/17