Chris Angelico wrote:
What do you mean, "another bit"? Currently, the chmod command on my system can manage nine primary bits (rwx for each of ugo), plus setuid, setgid, and sticky.
I think the idea is that you could regroup those 4 groups of 3 into 3 groups of 4, and get a nice mapping to hex. If hex had been the conventional way of writing binary numbers back then, Ken and Dennis would probably have done it that way. Changing it now would require some fairly intimate surgery on unix, however, which is somewhat beyond the scope of what Python can achieve. -- Greg -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
