[Patch] #29984 Change file permission using octal numbers

[Alexander Kellett]

On Sat, May 17, 2003 at 01:13:13PM +0200, Tim Jansen wrote:
> But how can you know which information is important and which is not? Who 
> tells you that you don't do something wrong when you don't enter the right 
> number into that field? You can not ignore it as long as you don't understand 
> the concept, especially for something like permissions.

maybe its just my crazy hacker mindset, but when i see
mirrored data which i don't understand i usually use the
stuff that i do. i mean. ever used photoshop?, its full
of extra information that makes no sense whatsoever to
me, but damn, for the people that "get it". its a *must*

Alex