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To not break go1 backwards compat?

• Gibbon1 7y ago
  Compatible with what exactly. No one uses octal. Here is a link to Pike fucking it up 10 years ago. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/151#issuecomment-66048306 https://github.com/golang/go/issues/151#issuecomment-6604830...
  • psanford 7y ago
    Lots of code uses octal. Its still the standard way of notating file permission bits on unix: os.Chmod(filename, 0777). You would break so much code if you just threw that away.
    • Gibbon1 7y ago
      > Chmod(filename, 0777) Nice example of something else that should have been depreciated about 35 years ago.
    • tandr 7y ago
      > standard way of notating file permission bits on unix: os.Chmod(filename, 0777) ... and honestly, is the ONLY place where I have ever seen octal been used.