Bug #473: File.chmod does not validate the permission attribute

• Status: Rejected
• Assignee: matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
• Target version: -

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On linux systems you can write:

File.chmod( 999999, 'test.txt' )

and no exception is thrown
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[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

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Hi,

At Sat, 23 Aug 2008 04:35:50 +0900,
Anonymous wrote in [ruby-core:18369]:

On linux systems you can write:

File.chmod( 999999, 'test.txt' )

and no exception is thrown

No reason to deny it, as long as the system allows it.

--
Nobu Nakada

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[matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)]

• Status changed from Open to Rejected
• Assignee set to matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)

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As Nobu stated, it's not a bug, and we have no reason to check numbers before invoking system calls.
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