On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 04:03:30PM +1100, Andrew Reilly wrote: > On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 10:43:04AM +0000, Gavin Atkinson wrote: > > On Sun, 26 Oct 2008, Yannick Cadin wrote: > > > > >- first in the stat command. Only with the -x option. If you execute stat > > >-x on /tmp or /usr/bin/passwd parameters for example, the numeric > > >representation of mode is wrong. The "special" bits are always 0. No > > >suid-bit, no sticky bit! > > > > Although this does seem wrong to me, the code does it deliberately. I'm > > not sure why, it may be to be compatible with Linux (as the -x option is > > documented in the man page as giving "Linux format" output). > > I don't know the history, but must guess from what you've > said that it was attempting to be compatible with an > old linux stat, beause the one that I have installed in > /usr/compat/linux/usr/bin/stat produces quite different output:
Just in case I wasn't clear (and it seems to me that I wasn't): would a reasonable resolution to this bug report be the removal of the "-x" option from our stat? Cheers, Andrew _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
