[openbeos] Re: Weird Permission Bits

  • From: Tyler Dauwalder <tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2004 14:55:14 -0700

I did O_RDWR | O_TRUNC | O_CREAT. But regardless, aren't permissions a 
bitmask? I wouldn't think you could cause random 's' and 'S' characters to 
appear, just toggle the usual chars on or off.

-Tyler

On 2004-07-05 at 14:49:37 [-0700], François Revol wrote:
> You did put a mode value as 3rd param on open(), did you ?
> So as for BFile I'm not sure hwo to do that on the ctor,
> I usually do that afterwards with SetPermissions(0644);
> (from BStatable)
> François.
> 
> Selon Tyler Dauwalder <tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> 
> > While I'm at it, anyone know what's up with the weird permission bits on
> > bfile.udf and open.udf?
> > 
> > /boot $ ll
> > total 5146677
> > drwxr-xr-x   1 baron    users        4096 Jul  5 13:08 apps
> > drwxr-xr-x   1 baron    users        2048 Aug 24  2003 beos
> > -rws--sr--   1 baron    users    1621094848 Jul  5 14:16 bfile.udf
> > drwxr-xr-x   1 baron    users        2048 Jan 19 19:20 biggg
> > drwxr-xr-x   1 baron    users        2048 Aug 24  2003 demos
> > drwxr-xr-x   1 baron    users        2048 Aug 24  2003 develop
> > drwxr-xr-x   1 baron    users        5120 Jul  5 14:13 home
> > -rw-r--r--   1 baron    users    1343551488 Jul  5 13:59 home.udf
> > -r-S--Sr--   1 baron    users    2827151168 Jul  5 14:17 open.udf
> > drwxr-xr-x   1 baron    users        2048 Aug 24  2003 optional
> > drwxr-xr-x   1 baron    users        2048 Aug 24  2003 preferences
> > drwxr-xr-x   1 baron    users        2048 Aug 24  2003 var
> > /boot $
> > 
> > -Tyler
> > 
> 

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