On 11/20/2017 07:55 PM, Ol Isaac wrote: > Hello, > > There is an incorrect assertion made in the chmod man page: > > Under the setuid/setgid header it says, "you can set (but not clear) the > bits with a numeric mode" > > This is not entirely true. If you prefix your numeric mode with a 0 then it > will work: > > e.g. > touch myfile > chmod 644 myfile > ls -l myfile > chmod g+s myfile > Is -l myfile > chmod 00644 myfile > is -l myfile > > > This simple test shows that you can clear the uid/gid bits with numeric > mode which is especially useful in scripts. > > An update to the man page to clarify this would be helpful. Hi Oliver, This page is from a different project. Please see http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/chmod.1.html#COLOPHON for info on reporting bugs there. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
