What does directory permission 'S' mean? (not lower case, but in upper case)
- by Howard Guo
I downloaded Eclipse, uncompressed it, did a few other things and all sudden I notice this interesting behaviour:
^_^ ~/Downloads > sudo chmod 0000 eclipse/
^_^ ~/Downloads > stat eclipse/
  File: 'eclipse/'
  Size: 4096        Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   directory
Device: 801h/2049d  Inode: 529725      Links: 9
Access: (2000/d-----S---)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)
Access: 2012-11-22 19:54:57.752017352 +1100
Modify: 2012-09-20 18:16:26.000000000 +1000
Change: 2012-11-22 20:07:49.354016510 +1100
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^_^ ~/Downloads > sudo chmod 0755 eclipse/
^_^ ~/Downloads > stat eclipse/
  File: 'eclipse/'
  Size: 4096        Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   directory
Device: 801h/2049d  Inode: 529725      Links: 9
Access: (2755/drwxr-sr-x)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)
Access: 2012-11-22 19:54:57.752017352 +1100
Modify: 2012-09-20 18:16:26.000000000 +1000
Change: 2012-11-22 20:08:19.042016478 +1100
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What does 'S' permission mean to a directory? And why it doesn't let me get rid of it?
Thanks.