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Alexey Dobriyan writes: > Every time I try to decipher S_I* combos I cry in pain. Often I just > refer to include/linux/stat.h defines to find out what mode it is > because numbers are actually quickier to understand. > > Compare and contrast: > > 0644 vs S_IRUGO|S_IWUSR vs rw_r__r__ > I'd say #2 really sucks. Damn right. I'd be very happy to remove (or #ifndef __KERNEL__ as needed) the dreadful S_FOO macros. I'd be much happier with plain old octal, as is normally used for both syscalls and the chmod command. (the non-octal nonsense was probably invented for porting software to non-UNIX systems) If you like the ls way though, you might as well add the file type notation: drwxr_xr_x, _r__r__r__, _rw_r__r__, etc. That's not too bad. Plain octal is best though. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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