Re: preferred order of owner, group, author in GNU/Hurd ls -l output?

[James Morrison]

--- "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@kemisten.nu> wrote:
> * James Morrison writes:
> >  The author shouldn't have any permission bits.  chmod a+r should add read
> > access to the owner, group, and other.  Should chmod a+r alter the nouser
> > permissions?  I wouldn't think so.
> 
> Me either, the current patches for chmod currently use `k' for setting
> the unknown user permission bits.
> 
> -- 
> Alfred M. Szmidt
> 

 
Did your patches include a way to change all 4 permission bit sets?
or would chmod ak+r work?


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James Morrison
   University of Waterloo
   Computer Science - Digital Hardware
   2A co-op
http://hurd.dyndns.org

Anyone referring to this as 'Open Source' shall be eaten by a GNU

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