Chris Angelico wrote:
Tack setuid onto "owner", setgid onto "group", and sticky onto "others"? Pretty arbitrary, and disrupts the fundamental meaning of each set.
Yes, it would be totally silly if e.g. the "ls" command were to regroup them that way when displaying the permission bits... oh, wait... % echo > blarg.txt % chmod 7777 blarg.txt % ls -l blarg.txt -rwsrwsrwt 1 greg staff 1 12 May 20:40 blarg.txt -- Greg -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
