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:
  > 
  > >   > > Can you please add handling of the 'X' format?
  > 
  > > 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 this is utterly fine, isn't it?

Sure it is, I realized that in the shower, too early in the morning to
think straight. Sorry about that. 

  > >   > 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.
  > 
  > And it doesn't :
  >   M-x set-file-modes RET /dd/temp RET -R RET
  > yields 
  >   file-modes-symbolic-to-number: Parse error in modes near `-R'
  > 
  > Don't you have this message?

Hmm, not sure what I did, I didn't get that message before, but I got
it now. Might be early morning brain malfunction :-(