Telemachus writes:
> On Mon Jul 06 2009 @ 3:31, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> Thanks to all ...
>> Now I'm curious about something else:
>>
>> Is the mode in a stat(file) readout something still different
>> than octal or decimal?
>
> As John answered, there's more there than just the permissions. If
On Mon Jul 06 2009 @ 3:31, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Thanks to all ...
> Now I'm curious about something else:
>
> Is the mode in a stat(file) readout something still different
> than octal or decimal?
As John answered, there's more there than just the permissions. If you
check perldoc -f stat, ther
Harry Putnam wrote:
Thanks to all ...
Now I'm curious about something else:
Is the mode in a stat(file) readout something still different
than octal or decimal?
I see `33261' show up in the `mode' slot on a file with 755 permissions
(from perldoc -f stat:
[...]
($dev,$ino,$mode,$nli
Thanks to all ...
Now I'm curious about something else:
Is the mode in a stat(file) readout something still different
than octal or decimal?
I see `33261' show up in the `mode' slot on a file with 755 permissions
(from perldoc -f stat:
[...]
($dev,$ino,$mode,$nlink,$uid,$gid,$rdev,$si
On Mon Jul 06 2009 @ 7:00, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Can anyone tell me how printing of $mode = 0755 turns into 493?
Yup: what's in $mode is an octal number. Its decimal equivalent is 493. What
you really want to print out is the string '0755', but the string and the
octal number are not the same thi
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 08:00, Harry Putnam wrote:
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> Can anyone tell me how printing of $mode = 0755 turns into 493?
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> my $mode = 0755;
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> print "hpdb chmod $mode $fname\n";
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0755 is 493. More specifically they are two representations of the
same number: the first i
Harry Putnam asked:
> The script below is my first usage of perls `chmod', but it appears to
> be in keeping with the info at perldoc -f chmod.
>
> But somehow in the print of $mode it turns into 493... even though it
> is set to 755. Its just the print though... the actual chmod appears
> to be
The script below is my first usage of perls `chmod', but it appears to
be in keeping with the info at perldoc -f chmod.
But somehow in the print of $mode it turns into 493... even though it
is set to 755. Its just the print though... the actual chmod appears
to be working as expected.
Can anyon
