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		b0in 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 1972 Unix V2 "Beta" Resurrected Someone in the mailing list thread linked the man pages that they were able to extract out https://gitlab.com/segaloco/v1man/-/blob/master/man1/stat.1?... for sdrwrw: - column 1 is s or l meaning small or large - column 2 is d, x, u, -; meaning directory, executable, setuid, or nothing. - the rest are read-write bits for owner and non-owner.

Postosuchus 5 months ago [–]

Pretty interesting. I guess it was way later, when they came up with the SUID semantics and appropriated the first character for symlinks (l) or setuid binaries (s)...

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