Re: EXT2 Filesystem permissions (bug)?

[Shawn Starr]

oh ;)

I never noticed that info before, then again 2 hours of sleep might be the
cause :)

On 25 Jun 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> Followup to:  <[e-mail]>
> By author:    Shawn Starr <[e-mail]>
> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> >
> > Is this a bug or something thats undocumented somewhere?
> >
> > d--------T
> > and
> > drwSrwSrwT
> >
> > are these special bits? I'm not aware of +S and +T
> >
>
> It's neither a bug nor undocumented.
>
> "info ls" would have told you the following:
>
>      The permissions listed are similar to symbolic mode
>      specifications
>      (*note Symbolic Modes::.).  But `ls' combines multiple bits into
>      the third character of each set of permissions as follows:
>     `s'
>           If the setuid or setgid bit and the corresponding executable
>           bit are both set.
>
>     `S'
>           If the setuid or setgid bit is set but the corresponding
>           executable bit is not set.
>
>     `t'
>           If the sticky bit and the other-executable bit are both set.
>
>     `T'
>           If the sticky bit is set but the other-executable bit is not
>           set.
>
>     `x'
>           If the executable bit is set and none of the above apply.
>
>     `-'
>           Otherwise.
>
> 	-hpa
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