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baz00
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That's a Lot of YAML
Actually I'd like to use octal. 0777 for example.
But fuck this particular type conversion semantic.
heelix
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Which - seeing like that, were the Linux file permissions originally octal? When thinking about permissions and permutations... and old magic numbers, that seems like the bits might fit.
baz00
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Well they were grouped in blocks of 3 bits so octal is a good representational format for 3 bits.
oblio
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Just switch to ugo / +- / rwx, much more intuitive.
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But fuck this particular type conversion semantic.