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xelah@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk (Alex Hayward) writes:

> They are permissions in the order owner, group, other. They are octal
> numbers. They form a bitfied, read is 4, write is 2, execute permission
> is 1.
> 
> Somewhat dodgy even under Unix, I'd have thought... Surely you wouldn't
> want permissions set to odd values without realising it?

I've just tested it on BSDI, and execute is masked off when you decode the
file, but read and write are verbatim. (So you can't accidentaly unpack a
program and then run it, but you umask setting is ignored. 50% secure)

Nick
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