[Gnu-arch-users] Re: Link with permissions

[Miles Bader]

Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:
>>> Yeah.  I've notice recently that many people seem to be thinking
>>> this way "hey if I don't need it, nobody does!"
>>
>> Thinking more about it, I find your comment funny because it applies 
>> nicely to your reply, something like "why is this guy bothering us 
>> with a more generic way of archiving access rights if all I need is 
>> to maintain UNIX rwx permissions as expressed by my project tree".
>
> Well to be fair, you haven't actually given any concrete examples of
> your "more generic way", just waved your hands vaguely.

Also, I'm not talking about removing existing functionality from tla.

I think it's reasonable to ask that if you'd like to _remove_ (or
change) functionality, that you give concrete examples of how existing
uses of that functionality can be done in a different way.

[Not to me, mind you -- I don't personally care all that much about
permission bits, at least so far.]

-Miles
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