Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 18:08:30 -0400 (EDT) From: lists AT m8y DOT org X-X-Sender: nemo AT nautilus DOT m8y DOT org To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: RE: How to "find" all writable files in a directory tree? In-Reply-To: <5.2.1.1.2.20030509150109.0658b200@pop.sonic.net> Message-ID: References: <5 DOT 2 DOT 1 DOT 1 DOT 2 DOT 20030509150109 DOT 0658b200 AT pop DOT sonic DOT net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Fri, 9 May 2003, Randall R Schulz wrote: > > At 14:44 2003-05-09, lists AT m8y DOT 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. My reading of the manual is that: -222 examines bit 2 being on in all of the 3 areas +2 examines bit 2 being on in all of the 3 areas 222 checks exact permissions 222 > >-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. I could be mistaken, but -perm +2 has always worked for me. I'll test it later. > 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). Nope, and yes, am aware :) > 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/ > > -- 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/