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Description: In ch06s02 we talk about using chmod with symbolic permissions, and introduce the 'chmod a+rwx filename' syntax.  We also introduce numeric permissions.  But we do not introduce umask until ch06s04.

In ch06s02 we avoid talking about the 'chmod +rwx filename' syntax, which is similar to a+rwx except that permissions masked by umask are not set by +rwx.  This makes it harder to use and also requires that students know about umask, which we haven't introduced yet.  For those reasons, we've avoided talking about that.

The behaviour of +rwx is documented in the chmod(1) man page in paragraph 3 of the DESCRIPTION.

It's been suggested that we need to comment on this behavior, which can be unexpected.