Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-envelope-info: Message-Id: <5.2.1.1.2.20030509150109.0658b200@pop.sonic.net> X-Sender: rschulz@pop.sonic.net Date: Fri, 09 May 2003 15:06:10 -0700 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Randall R Schulz Subject: RE: How to "find" all writable files in a directory tree? In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed At 14:44 2003-05-09, lists@m8y.org wrote: >-perm +222 is redundant How do you figure? There are 8 combinations of write enable bits that this permission specification matches. For "-perm +2" only one bit is examined and there's only one way for it to succeed. >-perm +mode > Any of the permission bits mode are set for the file. > >-perm -222 is equivalent to -perm +2 Either I'm dense or you're mistaken. Are you assuming a FAT file system? Cygwin takes advantage of NTFS permissions when possible (and when the now-default ntsec option of the CYGWIN environment variable is enabled). Randall Schulz -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/