Re: chmod 0755 behaves like chmod 755

[Jason Pepas]

Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Jason Pepas <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > I think I might have found a bug regarding the new behavior of chmod
> > (regarding the preservation of setuig, setgid, etc) in coreutils-6.9.
>
> See "Directory Setuid and Setgid" in the coreutils documentation.
>
> > Is there any way to clear the setgid bit using octal notation?
>
> "If you want to try to clear these bits, you must mention them
> explicitly in a symbolic mode, ..."
>
> Andreas.

was there a reason for this?  I hardly think someone would put a leading 
octal 0 in by mistake...

-jason