On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Jasper Wallace wrote:
> 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).
I changed the code for filter files to assume octal. I don't know why I
didn't do the other cases at the same time - absentmindedness/incompetence
or whatever. I should probably invent a new data type called "octal
integer" and use it for mode options.
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