On 02 August 2007 17:45, Daniel Brown wrote:
> Well, you're pleasant today, Mike.
H'mmm. I guess that was a little crabby. Sorry.
All I can say is that it was practically the last thing I did before going home at the end of a particularly frustrating day....
Cheers!
Mike
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>
> On 8/2/07, Ford, Mike <M.Ford@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 02 August 2007 15:58, Daniel Brown wrote:
> >
> > > On 8/2/07, Ben Ramsey <ramsey@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > I'm trying to set a sticky bit on a directory with chmod(). The
> > > > same octal value works from the command prompt, but it doesn't
> > > > appear to work correctly with the PHP function. Anyone have an
> > > > idea as to why?
> >
> > [SNIP]
> >
> >
> > > Drop the preceding 0 from the chmod() function parameters.
> > > The four-digit octal value is preferred, and the 0 is the first
> > > bit to show that there's no user- or group-specific execution
> > > (su-exec'ing, basically) or "stickiness" to the file/directory.
> > > However, three-digit values will work. In either case, five
> > > digits will not work.
> >
> > That's a ridiculous and downright wrong piece of advice.
> It may be correct for doing it directly in the shell, but in
> PHP you need the leading 0 to force the numbers to octal:
> 0755 is exactly the same as 00755 and 000755 (etc.), but
> different from plain 755.
> >
> > >
> > > Right:
> > > chmod 0755 file.php
> > > chmod 1777 file.php
> > > chmod('file.php',0755);
> > > chmod('file.php',1777);
> >
> > That last statement is the same as:
> >
> > chmod('file.php', 03361)
> >
> > which I don't think will have the desired effect!!
> >
> >
> > > Will almost always work, but isn't entirely correct:
> >
> > Not even nearly correct:
> >
> > > chmod 755 file.php
> > > chmod 644 file.php
> > > chmod('file.php',755);
> >
> > ... same as: chmod('file.php', 01363);
> >
> >
> > > chmod('file.php',644);
> >
> > ... same as: chmod('file.php', 01204);
> >
> >
> > > Will never (or at least, SHOULD never) work:
> >
> > On the contrary, the PHP versions of these are entirely
> correct -- you *need* the leading zeros to make the numeric
> literals be octal:
> >
> > > chmod 00755 file.php
> > > chmod 01777 file.php
> > > chmod('file.php',00755);
> > > chmod('file.php',01777);
> >
> > Cheers!
> >
> > Mike
> >
> >
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