Re: octal permissions

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 08:55 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > 
> > thank you for your answer. But, This isn't my problem.
> > What you have cited from the man page I know very well and it's my
> > everyday use.
> > Instead, if you go to "list view" in Nautilus and set "show octal
> > permissions", you get 6 digits for files and 7 digits for
> > directories. Say, 600750. 750 OK, but what is the meaning of 600?
> > That, the digits _before_ the UNIX permissions, is it what I ask for.
> > I would be really glad if I get a hint.
> 
> That is weird. I can see that too. Its not supposed to do that, and it
> didn't before. Probably something broke horribly. :)

Oh, it turns out this is due to the added access stuff to
GnomeVFSFilePermissions. I'm commiting some code to filter that out.