Timothy, > Just a quick note (see my long recent reply to Tim where I expand on this > more), > but this isn’t new behaviour (isn’t actually affected by my recent changes) > and > my concerns are with the viability of the necessary changes rather than > whether > this would be good (we are of the same mind I think).
yes, i see. i hadn't realized that. maybe, though, we could start off by warning people who are writing integer values; then deprecate it; then, N-releases from now, make it illegal? such a path might be worth it. or, at least the warnings -- irrespective, i would say, of whether or not the decimal value turns into some "reasonable" file mode value. cheers, Greg
