From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>,
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>, Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>,
Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>, Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>,
Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>,
Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com>,
Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: Use octal not symbolic permissions
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 15:41:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180326154149.4045ec03645d6983de6f11b3@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2e032ef111eebcd4c5952bae86763b541d373469.1522102887.git.joe@perches.com>
On Mon, 26 Mar 2018 15:22:32 -0700 Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
> mm/*.c files use symbolic and octal styles for permissions.
>
> Using octal and not symbolic permissions is preferred by many as more
> readable.
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/8/2/1945
>
> Prefer the direct use of octal for permissions.
Thanks. I'll park this until after -rc1 because the
benefit-to-potential-for-whoopsies ratio is rather low.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-26 22:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-26 22:22 Joe Perches
2018-03-26 22:36 ` David Rientjes
2018-03-26 23:05 ` Joe Perches
2018-03-26 22:41 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2018-03-26 22:50 ` Joe Perches
2018-03-28 13:06 ` Michal Hocko
2018-03-28 15:44 ` Joe Perches
2018-03-28 19:07 ` Michal Hocko
2018-03-28 19:26 ` Joe Perches
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