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From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: GNU sharutils generated archive license
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2017 09:55:55 -0500
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On 08/13/2017 01:12 PM, Bruce Korb wrote:
> =20
> +The valid "mode" option keywords are:
> +  xoth woth roth xgrp wgrp rgrp xusr wusr rusr rwxo rwxg rwxu xall wal=
l rall

Rather than inventing new option keywords, can you please share code
with 'chmod' by using the gnulib module 'modechange', so that we get a
consistent way to specify string-ized modes?

> +  or an integer mask with any of the lower 9 bits set

Is this always interpreted in octal, even when a leading 0 is not present=
?

Again, using the gnulib module would take care of this.

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Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
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