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The Other Kind of Reentrant

Gather around for a tale of adventure in the land of Linux c++ programming.

UNIX tip o’ the day

I never knew that the +X mode for chmod meant set the execute bit only if a directory or if the execute bit is already set on a file.

Up until now I had been using a wierd combo of chmod -R [whatever] followed by find . -type d | xargs chmod +x to reset permissions [...]