Subject: Re: chmod weirdness
To: None <pkgsrc-changes@NetBSD.org>
From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
List: pkgsrc-changes
Date: 12/01/2007 20:43:30
On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 08:31:07PM +0100, Roland Illig wrote:
> Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
>> It seems like NetBSD's chmod ignores the mask as it is invalid (u is not
>> a valid mode) and the DragonFly one I tried with ignored the invalid
>> letters and ended up using =rX pr something like that. Weired.
>
> "u" is a valid mode. For example, you can say "chmod g=u". Maybe you should 
> really read 
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/utilities/chmod.html ;)

That doesn't explain the behaviour though.

Joerg