Get/Set Permissions

[James Cook]

It's terrific that we can use Panorama to get or set permissions on 
OS X. However, comparing the documentation to the results and to what 
other software suggests leaves the waters a bit murky.

The Panorama Reference example shows SetFilePermissions with 3 
digits. Using GetFilePermissions always results in 5 digits. Between 
Owner, Group and Others, there are three sets of Permissions for a 
file or folder so I'd expect 3 to be correct.

Even then it doesn't seem to match the results I see in other 
software. Read is typically a value of 4, Write is 2 and Execute is 
1. So a setting for, say Read and Write is the sum of 4+2 or 6. The 
potential range is 1 through 7. Yet GetFilePermissions uses digits 0 
through 9.

My expectation would be that a file set for Read & Write would be 666 
but GetFilePermissions shows 33206.

I could use some further enlightenment.


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