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Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2016 09:29:27 +0200
From: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0077/1285] Replace numeric parameter like 0444 with macro
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On Tue, Aug 02, 2016 at 02:42:56PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> 
> Sorry, the macros just make it _less_ readable, because you do chmod
> 666, not chmod S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR | S_IRGRP | S_IROTH.

Actually, you can do "chmod a=rw ..." or "chmod u=rw,go=r ..." but very
few people use that syntax (the "+" or "-" variants come handy at times,
though).

                                                         Michal Kubecek