Re: Too powerful rmdir

2009-08-11 Thread Bob Proulx
zhoulai...@melix wrote: > I suppose this is a designing issue or a bug: Thanks for the report. But the behavior you describe is not a bug but simply a misunderstanding. > You can remove an empty directory as you like, even if you don't have the > right to read, write nor execute: The permission

Re: [PATCH] ls: Use pretty UTF-8 arrow when showing where symlinks point to

2009-08-11 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Tue, 11.08.09 22:27, Pádraig Brady (p...@draigbrady.com) wrote: > this is equivalent I think: > >static const char *arrow = " -> "; > #ifdef HAVE_NL_LANGINFO >if (fancy_chars && STREQ (nl_langinfo (CODESET), "UTF-8")) > arrow = " \xe2\x86\x92 "; > #endif >DIRED

Too powerful rmdir

2009-08-11 Thread zhoulai...@melix
Hello, I suppose this is a designing issue or a bug: You can remove an empty directory as you like, even if you don't have the right to read, write nor execute: f...@ubuntu:~/Unix_Tutorial_8/5$ mkdir test f...@ubuntu:~/Unix_Tutorial_8/5$ ls -l total 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 fu fu 4096 2009-08-12 06:39 tes

Re: [PATCH] ls: Use pretty UTF-8 arrow when showing where symlinks point to

2009-08-11 Thread Pádraig Brady
Lennart Poettering wrote: > [Second version of the patch, makes this feature optional with --fancy-chars] --fancy-chars :) I'm not sure how serious this patch is. How about: alias lsf='ls -l --color | sed "s/ -> / $(tput bold)\u25aa\u25b6$(tput sgr0) /"' cheers, Pádraig. p.s. this chunk is far

[PATCH] ls: Use pretty UTF-8 arrow when showing where symlinks point to

2009-08-11 Thread Lennart Poettering
[Second version of the patch, makes this feature optional with --fancy-chars] Diego Pettenò complained that "ls -l" doesn't use the UTF-8 arrow character to show where symlinks point to. This tiny patch fixes that. With this applied the character is used when the CODESET is UTF-8 otherwise we fall

Re: chmod feature request: setting different modes for files and directories

2009-08-11 Thread Andreas Schwab
Pádraig Brady writes: > Tobia Conforto wrote: >> The same is true when someone >> extracts some files from an archive or copies them over a removable >> media, where permissions need to be reset to something sane, like 755/644: >> > > current: chmod -R 755 another/path; find another/path -type

Re: chmod feature request: setting different modes for files and directories

2009-08-11 Thread Pádraig Brady
Tobia Conforto wrote: > Dear coreutils maintainers, > > I'd like to ask for an often needed feature of chmod: the ability to set > different modes for files and directories. I will briefly explain the > need, and then propose a possible syntax. > current: find some/path -type d -exec chmod g+s