um ... what's with the "." after the directory perms?

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Thu Mar 5 15:19:09 UTC 2009


On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 16:54 -0500, Michel Salim wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan
> <pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I thought that was a plus (+) when file ACLs were present.
> >
> > That's what "info ls" says (though "man ls" doesn't). I can't see any
> > reference to a '.' as part of the mode.
> >
> File a bug? info and man really ought to return the same information.

I decided to report this, but I can't figure out which component to file
it against. There a BZ page for documentation bugs, but nothing
specifically mentions man pages (or info). Or is one expected to file it
against the actual command ('ls')?

poc




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