On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 04:01:48PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Convert S_<FOO> permissions to the more readable octal. > Something like that should be able to address the readability while > still using symbolic constants. Macros are easy. I've sent a patch long time ago which does essentially #define rwxrwxrwx 0777 ... But then kernel will start using something nobode else does. This whole issue is like sizeof(*ptr) vs sizeof(sizeof(struct S)). No preferred way overall with ever vigilant checkpatch.pl guarding kernel 24/7. :-)
