Re: [PATCH] Treat :tangle-mode as an octal value not integer

[Jeremy Cowgar]

On 2021-09-29 02:39, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 10:54:48AM -0400, Jeremy Cowgar wrote:
> > As an org user I would expect :tangle-mode 0660 to produce a file that
> > has user rw, group rw, other nothing. Instead, what really happens
> > currently is 0660 is treated as an integer which is actually
> > 3140. This produces unexpected file permissions.
>
> Hm. This looks dangerous: interpreting an integer as octal just
> due to the context?
>
> I do understand why, but still...
>
> Why not recommend Elisp's explicit syntax for octal representation,
> i.e. :tangle-mode #o660? And put a prominent note in the docs,
> of course.

Are you suggesting this currently works or that the patch should be
changed to make that work? A quick try on my local system (pre-patch),
I receive the error:

  Wrong type argument: fixnump, "#o660"

--
Jeremy