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Re:1972 Unix V2 "Beta" Resurrected by b0in on Thursday February 20, 2025 @08:15AM (#43114249)
Someone in the mailing list thread linked the man pages that they were able to extract out

https://gitlab.com/segaloco/v1man/-/blob/master/man1/stat.1?...

for sdrwrw:

- column 1 is s or l meaning small or large

- column 2 is d, x, u, -; meaning directory, executable, setuid, or nothing.

- the rest are read-write bits for owner and non-owner.

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Re:1972 Unix V2 "Beta" Resurrected by Postosuchus on Thursday February 20, 2025 @03:52PM (#43120028)
Pretty interesting. I guess it was way later, when they came up with the SUID semantics and appropriated the first character for symlinks (l) or setuid binaries (s)...
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