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From: Jeremy Cowgar <jeremy@cowgar.com>
To: tomas@tuxteam.de
Cc: Emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode-bounces+jeremy=cowgar.com@gnu.org>,
	emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Treat :tangle-mode as an octal value not integer
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2021 02:55:46 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7e1c208b9fa8845adff5e3c45d6f086b@cowgar.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210929063925.GA6367@tuxteam.de>

On 2021-09-29 02:39, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 10:54:48AM -0400, Jeremy Cowgar wrote:
>> As an org user I would expect :tangle-mode 0660 to produce a file that
>> has user rw, group rw, other nothing. Instead, what really happens
>> currently is 0660 is treated as an integer which is actually
>> 3140. This produces unexpected file permissions.
>> 
> 
> Hm. This looks dangerous: interpreting an integer as octal just
> due to the context?
> 
> I do understand why, but still...
> 
> Why not recommend Elisp's explicit syntax for octal representation,
> i.e. :tangle-mode #o660? And put a prominent note in the docs,
> of course.

Are you suggesting this currently works or that the patch should be
changed to make that work? A quick try on my local system (pre-patch),
I receive the error:

   Wrong type argument: fixnump, "#o660"

--
Jeremy


  reply	other threads:[~2021-09-29  7:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-28 14:54 [PATCH] Treat :tangle-mode as an octal value not integer Jeremy Cowgar
2021-09-29  6:39 ` tomas
2021-09-29  6:55   ` Jeremy Cowgar [this message]
2021-09-29  7:21     ` tomas
2021-09-29  7:52     ` dkrm
2021-09-29  8:22       ` tomas
2021-09-29  9:29         ` Gyro Funch
2021-09-29 11:07           ` tomas
2021-09-29 13:17             ` Jeremy Cowgar
2021-09-29 13:55               ` tomas
2021-09-29  7:10   ` Greg Minshall
2021-09-29 11:35 ` Bastien
2021-09-29 13:48 ` Timothy
2021-09-29 14:26   ` tomas
2021-09-29 14:58     ` Timothy
2021-09-29 15:13       ` Jeremy Cowgar
2021-09-30 18:13         ` Timothy
2021-09-29 15:14       ` tomas
2021-09-29 17:18     ` Greg Minshall
2021-09-29 18:15       ` tomas
2021-11-18 12:04       ` Timothy

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