On 10:50 27 Apr 2002, christopher j bottaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Saturday 27 April 2002 12:51 am, Cameron Simpson wrote: | > Sure. So? It's not psychic. | no sh*t, so why is it making decisions about what attributes shouldn't be set | for me?
Because you haven't _told_ it the the attribute is used. | > It's not putting a useless attribute on a data file. | > What's your point? | my point is that i >know< when i need the executable attribute set on my | files, and i don't appreciate bash telling me otherwise. 1: It's not bash doing this most likely. 2: Again, you haven't _told_ it you want an execute bit. If you want a special mode, call open yourself with a 0777 mode. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ "He deserves death!" "Deserves it! I daresay he does. And many die that deserve life. Is it in your power to give it to them? Then do not be so quick to deal out death in judgement, for even the very wise may not see all ends." - Gandalf, _The Lord of the Rings_ _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
