which Linux?

[J. Landman Gay]

Bob Sneidar wrote:
>
> And can I say, after over 20 years of IT experience that
> the unix/linux file permissions are as inane a thing as
> I think I have ever seen?

OS X permissions are identical.

>
> Really? They want end users to have to edit the permissions
> for all the files they create?? In a TERMINAL??? Really?????

Not all files, just those that come from elsewhere sometimes. If you 
build a Mac OS X standalone on Windows, it comes over to the Mac without 
the executable bit set too. You can use terminal to set it.

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