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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated [experimental]: findutils-4.3.0-1
- From: Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
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- Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 09:17:46 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated [experimental]: findutils-4.3.0-1
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I fully expect a couple of hippos in this thread as well, but
nonetheless...
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Eric Blake wrote:
> A new release of findutils, 4.3.0-1, is available for experimental use.
> [snip]
> Upstream news since 4.2.27 is attached.
> [snip]
> ** Functional Changes
> New tests, -readable, -writable, -executable. These check that a file
> can be read, written or executed respectively.
Can someone explain to me how these are different from "-perm -0400",
"-perm -0200", and "-perm -0100" respectively? Do they use access()?
Igor
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