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Actually I'd like to use octal. 0777 for example. But fuck this particular type conversion semantic.
by baz00 3y ago
Actually I'd like to use octal. 0777 for example.
But fuck this particular type conversion semantic.
- oblio 3y agoJust switch to ugo / +- / rwx, much more intuitive.
- heelix 3y agoWhich - seeing like that, were the Linux file permissions originally octal? When thinking about permissions and permutations... and old magic numbers, that seems like the bits might fit.
- baz00 3y agoWell they were grouped in blocks of 3 bits so octal is a good representational format for 3 bits.