Re: [PATCH 0967/1285] Replace numeric parameter like 0444 with macro

Greg KH
2016-08-02T16:58:11Z

On Tue, Aug 02, 2016 at 04:34:20PM +0300, Matwey V. Kornilov wrote:
> And actually S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR | S_IRGRP | S_IROTH can be simplified
> to S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR, not?
> I think we need to have and use dedicated special macros for most
> common magic octal permissions like 0755 or 0644.

We already do have them, the developer here decided to not use them for
some unknown reason, making all 1285 of these patches wrong :(