Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> How about making it be
>
> [core]
> sharedrepository = {umask | user | group | everybody}
>
> and allow the old boolean expression syntax to mean "0/false means umask,
> 1/true means group".
>
> So you'd have:
>
> - umask/0/false means "use 0777 permissions with default umask"
> - user means "use 0500 permissions"
> - group means "use 0550 permissions"
> - everybody means "use 0555 permissions"
>
> (where "5" is r-x, and only for directories, and obviously degenerates to
> just "4" aka r-- for regular files).
>
> That sounds really pretty self-explanatory and obvious, wouldn't you say?
Yes, the user can mistype "gruop", people would start making
noises about having "world" as a synonym for "everybody", and
the parsing becomes somewhat cumbersome, and all that trouble,
but on the other hand that is probably the easiest to explain.
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