On Wed, 2020-11-18 at 10:35 +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > Actually I'd prefer keeping the symbolic name because this is easier to > grep for. So to convince me a better reason than "checkpatch says so" is > needed.
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ca+55afw5v23t-zvdzp-mmd_eyxf8wbafwwb59934fv7g21u...@mail.gmail.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2016 16:58:29 -0400 The symbolic names are good for the *other* bits (ie sticky bit, and the inode mode _type_ numbers etc), but for the permission bits, the symbolic names are just insane crap. Nobody sane should ever use them. Not in the kernel, not in user space. Linus
