On Sat, May 12, 2018 at 6:44 PM, Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > 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
That's a hack to fit it into a fixed *display* width. And there are quite a few weirdnesses to make that work. Not something I would recommend except when, as here, backward compat is critical. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
