um ... what's with the "." after the directory perms?

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 11:29 -0500, Douglas E. Warner wrote:
> seth vidal wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 09:34 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >> yes, i'm sure i'm about to embarrass myself here but i just checked
> >> some directory perms created while root and they display as
> >>
> >> drwxr-xr-x.
> >>           ^ ????
> >>
> > I think it is an extended attribute.
> > 
> > try running getfattr on the file.
> 
> I thought that was a plus (+) when file ACLs were present.

That's what "info ls" says (though "man ls" doesn't). I can't see any
reference to a '.' as part of the mode.

poc