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Re: umask doesn't accept some valid symbolic modes
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: umask doesn't accept some valid symbolic modes |
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Wed, 22 Feb 2023 09:38:53 -0500 |
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On 2/22/23 9:33 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
According to
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/chmod.html
the symbolic mode can contain more than one action concatenated, for
example "g+r-x", which is the same as "g+r,g-x".
The version of umask in the devel branch should be fully POSIX conformant.
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/