-Allow forcing arbitrary permissions 2002/03/12
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- On 12 Mar 2002, Dave Dykstra <dwd@bell-labs.com> wrote:
- > If we would add an option to do that functionality, I
- > would vote for one that was more general which could mask
- > off any set of permission bits and possibly add any set of
- > bits. Perhaps a chmod-like syntax if it could be
- > implemented simply.
-
- I think that would be good too. For example, people uploading files
- to a web server might like to say
-
- rsync -avzP --chmod a+rX ./ sourcefrog.net:/home/www/sourcefrog/
-
- Ideally the patch would implement as many of the gnu chmod semantics
- as possible. I think the mode parser should be a separate function
- that passes back something like (mask,set) description to the rest
- of the program. For bonus points there would be a test case for the
- parser.
-
- Possibly also --chown
-
- (Debian #23628)
-
- NOTE: there is a patch that implements this in the "patches" subdir.
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