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Considering using Octal Notation in Permissions Errors #16943

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@brycefisher

Currently permissions error messages print out the decimal representation of the file permission problem, without any indication of what number base is used (Ex: base 10, 8, or 16). Here's an example taken from a recent travis-ci:

screen shot 2014-09-02 at 8 32 30 am

In an ideal world, this error message would have been "bits: 700" instead of "bits: 448". I see that octal support was mostly added to support Linux file permissions, and it would be nice to use them in errors and debugging too :-)

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