ls -l obscures important information
guy at gorodish.UUCP
guy at gorodish.UUCP
Fri Mar 13 06:50:33 AEST 1987
>Turned out that a mistake in a makefile had caused the program to be
>installed originally with mode 2701 - not executable by the group -
>but of course ls -l shows rwx--s--x as if all were well.
The S5 version of "ls" shows a sticky, set-UID, or set-GID bit that
lacks the matching execute bit as a capital letter; we dropped that
into the 4.2 environment "ls" here as well.
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