Re: bin/2689 ([dM] chmod(1)/setmode(3) symbolic mode improvement)

[Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/2689; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: bin/2689 ([dM] chmod(1)/setmode(3) symbolic mode improvement)
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 13:14:10 +0200

 On Wed, 27 Aug 2014, David Holland wrote:
 > Because of the interaction with getopt I don't think this is a 
 > good idea even as an extension.
 
 Instead of trying to make "chmod --xr.x--x file" work, and 
 recognising it based on the string length and characters included, 
 perhaps we could find a way of recognising it based on a prefix. 
 Perhaps something like "chmod m=--xr.x--x file", where the new 
 "m=" marks the new syntax.
 
 --apb (Alan Barrett)