On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 08:44:23AM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > wa-hoo! of course ... didn't even think to look there. changed to > 644 (btw, can anyone enlighten me on specifying the first bit (*0*644) > all the time? i never have, and haven't had any problems), and all > works.
Cool. As for 644 versus 0644, it depends on the context. In parameters to /bin/chmod, it doesn't matter, so you won't have seen any problems. However, the numeric mode is really an base-8 (octal) number. In some languages the argument to the chmod equivalent is a plain number (rather than in shell where everything is naturally a character string), and if you just say 644 then that'll be treated as decimal and come out as 1204 octal, which definitely isn't what you want. The leading 0 is what at least Perl and C use to indicate that a number should be read as octal rather than decimal. I try to write 0644 out of habit, on the basis that I'm less likely to make mistakes that way. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
