From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 21 14:17:25 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79EDF37B401 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 14:17:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-13.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1B0643FDD for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 14:17:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (working [172.16.0.95]) by pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h1LMHMrX007900; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 17:17:22 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3E56A572.7080304@potentialtech.com> Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 17:17:22 -0500 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021127 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chuck Swiger Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cvsup Handbook Example References: <20030221211520.88E0A43FE9@mx1.FreeBSD.org> <3E56A29C.8030700@mac.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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