Re: possible new feature for chmod

[Paul Eggert]

"Alfred M. Szmidt" <address@hidden> writes:

>    Because the same syntax is used in other places, e.g.:
> 
>      install -m %-rw-rw-r-- file directory
>      mkdir -m %drwxr-xr-x directory
> 
>    and similarly for mkfifo and mknod.
> 
> Cool, I didn't know this.

Sorry, I didn't explain myself clearly enough.  My idea was that if
we extended the syntax this way, the same extension would apply
to every program that parses modes.  The above syntax does not
yet work for install and mkdir, but it would work under my proposal.

If we used a different option, we'd need to add a separate option to
each of the above commands.