John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well and good, but it seems to me that writing an explicit 0 actually > does make an explicit request.
This topic came up when I first added that feature, and originally I agreed with you, but others did not and their arguments were persuasive. The counterargument is that it's strange if a leading zero changes the semantics of a number, as this is not what many people expect. Please see the thread rooted here: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-07/msg00124.html If you read that root, by the way, you'll see that existing practice is wildly different in this area. For example, on Solaris, "chmod 2755 DIR" silently ignores the "2". _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
