Hi Greg, > i’d push back, even here, on allowing decimal. file modes are bit > masks. to me, offering a way to set a bit mask via a *decimal* value > seems a mistake. Just a quick note (see my long recent reply to Tim where I expand on this more), but this isn’t new behaviour (isn’t actually affected by my recent changes) and my concerns are with the viability of the necessary changes rather than whether this would be good (we are of the same mind I think). All the best, Timothy