On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Billy Crook [email protected] wrote:
Maybe David's thinking of a+x. That would do what he's talking about. I've never heard of 'packed permissions'.
I'm not thinking of a+x, I'm thinking of a file system so old that saving six bits per file system entry was worth the resulting confusion, like, PDP-10 or early seventies Unices.
a+ is probably the only time I ever encountered having one letter set multiple bits, though.