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Re: Some questions about file permissions



On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 03:54:43PM +0200, Robert Wilhelm Land wrote:
> Colin Watson wrote:
> >The info documentation for ls says this:
> >
> >    &pi0;s'
> >          If the setuid or setgid bit and the corresponding executable
> >          bit are both set.
> >
> >    &pi0;S'
> >          If the setuid or setgid bit is set but the corresponding
> >          executable bit is not set.
> 
> Thanks Colin, didn't think of using the info documentery - only
> the man pages which do not seem up to date on my system.

They should be up to date, just perhaps not as comprehensive. The man
pages and info documentation for fileutils/coreutils take somewhat
different approaches.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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