On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 10:33 -0600, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
"RPJD" == Robert P J Day rpjday@crashcourse.ca writes:
RPJD> drwxr-xr-x. ^ ???? RPJD> what's that period? i've never seen that before. or have i RPJD> just not been paying attention?
From "info ls":
Following the file mode bits is a single character that specifies whether an alternate access method such as an access control list applies to the file. When the character following the file mode bits is a space, there is no alternate access method. When it is a printing character, then there is such a method. GNU `ls' uses a `.' character to indicate a file with an SELinux security context, but no other alternate access method. A file with any other combination of alternate access methods is marked with a `+' character.
I missed that because it's different in the F10 version of ls:
Following the file mode bits is a single character that specifies whether an alternate access method such as an access control list applies to the file. When the character following the file mode bits is a space, there is no alternate access method. When it is a printing character, then there is such a method.
For a file with an extended access control list, a `+' character is listed. Basic access control lists are equivalent to the permissions listed, and are not considered an alternate access method.
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