On 08/02/2016 03:58 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > [ So I answered similarly to another patch, but I'll just re-iterate > and change the subject line so that it stands out a bit from the > millions of actual patches ] > > On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 1:42 PM, Pavel Machek <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Everyone knows what 0644 is, but noone can read S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR | >> S_IRCRP | S_IROTH (*). Please don't do this. > > Absolutely. It's *much* easier to parse and understand the octal > numbers, while the symbolic macro names are just random line noise and > hard as hell to understand. You really have to think about it.
Posix even specifies the numeric value for each macro in the chmod command's extended description: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/chmod.html Rob
