> BTW: Security-wise I would argue to even forbid the integer case. Completely agree with this. If you look at the chmod(1) man page, only symbolic and octal cases are described. These are the options most people will be comfortable with as a result.
> I would also tend to only support something like "#o755" and forbid > "755" as well as "0755", just to be more explicit and to avoid > misinterpretation. Here I disagree; again, in the manual, the notation used, as an example, is 0755. I see no need for the #o syntax personally. This is especially true if we don't allow integer (i.e. base 10) values. -- : Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50, Org 9.5-g9a4a24 : Latest paper written in org: https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.05096