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| author | Bernhard Voelker <mail@bernhard-voelker.de> | 2020-08-12 23:59:05 +0200 |
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| committer | Bernhard Voelker <mail@bernhard-voelker.de> | 2020-08-14 00:09:17 +0200 |
| commit | 0da0554e49b347edffe3dc100d6ec67d7f9e4904 (patch) | |
| tree | da0562a12c0465f4229fc5754bdf9bc802742e67 | |
| parent | b9ddd2bca1032fccbb6435b1e176af6f7a7485df (diff) | |
| download | findutils-0da0554e49.tar.gz | |
doc: clarify that 'find -perm +MODE' is unrelated to umask
* doc/find.texi (Test -perm pmode): Do the above.
* NEWS: Mention the change.
Reported by Mohamed Akram in
https://sv.gnu.org/bugs/?58654
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/find.texi | 4 |
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ find -used works again. This predicate was not working properly since adding the support for sub-second timestamp resolution for various predicates in FINDUTILS_4_3_3-1 back in 2007. +#58654: doc: clarify that 'find -perm +MODE' is unrelated to umask + #58458: doc: improve section 'Hard links', especially fix the description regarding 'find -L -samefile FILE'. diff --git a/doc/find.texi b/doc/find.texi index 4dde015..1e4ab17 100644 --- a/doc/find.texi +++ b/doc/find.texi @@ -1222,6 +1222,10 @@ True if the file's mode bits match @var{pmode}, which can be either a symbolic or numeric @var{mode} (@pxref{File Permissions}) optionally prefixed by @samp{-} or @samp{/}. +Note that @var{pmode} starts with all file mode bits cleared, i.e., +does not relate to the process's file creation bit mask (also known +as @command{umask}). + A @var{pmode} that starts with neither @samp{-} nor @samp{/} matches if @var{mode} exactly matches the file mode bits. (To avoid confusion with an obsolete GNU extension, @var{mode} |
