Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 17:17:22 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cvsup Handbook Example Message-ID: <3E56A572.7080304@potentialtech.com> References: <20030221211520.88E0A43FE9@mx1.FreeBSD.org> <3E56A29C.8030700@mac.com>
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Chuck Swiger wrote: > zerotransfer@bellsouth.net wrote: > >> More than the number, the issue for me is the motivation of why that >> number >> was used. Why use one of the only three digit numbers that I know of that >> is associated with evil to at least one belief? See my point? > > > Certainly. Your point appears to be that you are too ignorant to know > that Unix mode bits are represented in octal, not decimal. > > [ "rw-rw-rw-" is 666 in base 8, which is 438 in decimal. "666" in > decimal corresponds to Unix mode "--w--rx-wt", not that either one has > any religious connotations whatsoever. It must be nice to not have any > genuine or substantive problems to deal with, if this actually matters > to anyone.... ] Please don't do this. This is off-topic and is a flame-war starting. To the person that started this discussion, if you feel offended by the use of 666 in an example, you should either email doc@freebsd.org to bring it up, or file a PR asking it to be changed. This is the wrong list for this discussion. To everyone else. If the person who started this thread is not a troll, he certainly posted a message that had the effect of trolling. Please don't feed. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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