Index: perm.texi =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/findutils/findutils/doc/perm.texi,v retrieving revision 1.2 diff -u -r1.2 perm.texi --- perm.texi 12 Apr 2000 10:16:53 -0000 1.2 +++ perm.texi 20 Feb 2005 21:59:42 -0000 @@ -57,11 +57,11 @@ @enumerate @item @cindex setuid -set the process's effective user ID to that of the file upon execution +Set the process's effective user ID to that of the file upon execution (called the @dfn{setuid bit}). No effect on directories. @item @cindex setgid -set the process's effective group ID to that of the file upon execution +Set the process's effective group ID to that of the file upon execution (called the @dfn{setgid bit}). For directories on some systems, put files created in the directory into the same group as the directory, no matter what group the user who creates them is in. @@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ @noindent The spaces between the three parts above are shown for readability only; -symbolic modes can not contain spaces. +symbolic modes cannot contain spaces. The @var{users} part tells which users' access to the file is changed. It consists of one or more of the following letters (or it can be empty; @@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ a=rw @end example -To remove write permission for from all users other than the file's +To remove write permission for all users other than the file's owner, use: @example @@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ @end example Remember that the special permissions only affect files that are -executable, plus, on some systems, directories (on which they have +executable, and on some systems, directories (on which they have different meanings; @pxref{Mode Structure}). Using @samp{a} in the @var{users} part of a symbolic mode does not cause the special permissions to be affected; thus, @@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ gives users other than the owner of the file read permission and, if it is a directory or if someone already had execute permission to it, gives them execute permission; and it also denies them write -permission to it file. It does not affect the permission that the +permission to the file. It does not affect the permission that the owner of the file has for it. The above mode is equivalent to the two modes: @@ -440,7 +440,7 @@ leading 0, as you do in C. Mode 0055 is the same as mode 55. A numeric mode is usually shorter than the corresponding symbolic -mode, but it is limited in that it can not take into account a file's +mode, but it is limited in that it cannot take into account a file's previous permissions; it can only set them absolutely. The permissions granted to the user, to other users in the file's group,