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From: guy@gorodish.UUCP
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Subject: Re: ls -l obscures important information
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Date: Thu, 12-Mar-87 15:50:33 EST
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>Turned out that a mistake in a makefile had caused the program to be
>installed originally with mode 2701 - not executable by the group -
>but of course ls -l shows  rwx--s--x   as if all were well.

The S5 version of "ls" shows a sticky, set-UID, or set-GID bit that
lacks the matching execute bit as a capital letter; we dropped that
into the 4.2 environment "ls" here as well.