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

[James Morrison]

--- Matthew Sackman <matthew@sackman.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> Following on from chown is chmod: when one does a chmod a+r [filename]
> for example, I take it that under Hurd that's going to update the
> permissions for 'author' and not 'all'. Maybe use an 'A' for 'all'?
> 

 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.

> Uppercase isn't generally liked for command options it appears. Any
> other suggestions?
> 
> Matthew
> 

 Perhaps chmod A+r could be used for all with no user bits.


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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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