On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> 660 (decimal) = 1224 (octal)
Thats what i'd gathered - i was just pointing it out as a trap for the
unwairy - it might be nice to add a some code to check that for permissions
there is a leading 0 (or automaticlly assume it's octal as chmod[1] does).
has anyone here _ever_ used decimal for permissions?
this is of course at the cost of makeing the code less generic.
> jasper@??? said:
> } mode=660
> } in the local_delivery transport, and it was creating files that looked
> } like this:
>
> } --w--w-r-- 1 u15834i6 106 737 May 30 22:26 u15834i6
>
> } changing it to 0660 seemes to of made the problem go away.
>
> Nigel.
[1] at least on solaris, FreeBSD and irix it does
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