Re: Interactive specs of C functions.

[Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>]

michael@cadilhac.name (Michaël Cadilhac) writes:

  > Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu> writes:
  > 
  > > michael@cadilhac.name (Michaël Cadilhac) writes:
  > >
  > >   > ** set-file-modes is now interactive and can take the mode value in
  > >   > symbolic notation thanks to auxiliary functions.
  > >
  > > This is great!
  > 
  > Isn't it? :-) Wow, this patch concludes my very first post in
  > emacs.devel :-)
  > 
  > > Can you please add handling of the 'X' format?
  > 
  >   $ touch /dd/test && chmod 100 /dd/test && la /dd/test
  > ---x------ 1 micha micha 0 2007-09-10 16:57 /dd/test
  > 
  >   M-x set-file-modes RET /dd/test RET o+X
  > 
  >   $ la /dd/test
  > ---x-----x 1 micha micha 0 2007-09-10 16:57 /dd/test
  > 
  > In which case is it ignored?

ls -l data.o
-rw-------    1 dann     dann   143196 Sep 10 07:39 data.o

M-x set-file-modes RET data.o RET a+rX RET

ls -l data.o
-rw-r--r--    1 dann     dann   143196 Sep 10 07:39 data.o

  > 
  > > And so is "-R"
  > 
  > The (info "(coreutils)Symbolic Modes") node doesn't know about that.  Do
  > you mean the recursive feature of chmod?  In which case, I don't think
  > it really is the job of `set-file-modes' to handle this.  

My point is that if set-file-modes does not handle -R, it should not
just ignore it.