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From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: Modifying only certain bits with chmod
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On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Christopher Farley wrote:

> Anthony Atkielski (anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) wrote:
>
> > Cliff writes:
> >
> > > If Mr Atkielski's change is genuinely compatible
> > > with existing chmod, and has been tested even
> > > under the most pathological situations, then
> > > he should submit it as a PR or whatever as an
> > > improved version.
> >
> > How do I do that?
>
> man send-pr
>
> There's also a web interface at freebsd.org.

You might want to package it up as a port; the real reason to keep
"traditional" behaviour in system utilities is called "POLA"* - you want
to keep your sysadmin skills reasonably portable. killall is probably
the biggest culprit in this regard :-)


jan

* Principle Of Least Astonishment

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"NOP" is a trivial implementation of an executable Z subset.


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