Re: Storing permissions

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PJPaul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>

Date

Apr 16, 2005, 23:19 UTC

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Martin wrote:

> Does it really make sense to store full permissions in the trees? I think
> that remembering the x-bit should be good enough for almost all purposes
> and the other permissions should be left to the local environment.

That matches my experience - store 1 bit of mode state - executable or not.

Let local environment determine read, write and umask permissions.

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