Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 19 Nov 2001 10:29:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 19 Nov 2001 10:29:44 -0500 Received: from chaos.analogic.com ([204.178.40.224]:1154 "EHLO chaos.analogic.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 19 Nov 2001 10:29:31 -0500 Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 10:29:16 -0500 (EST) From: "Richard B. Johnson" Reply-To: root@chaos.analogic.com To: Tim Waugh cc: vda , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: x bit for dirs: misfeature? In-Reply-To: <20011119150439.Q24766@redhat.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Tim Waugh wrote: > On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 04:58:38PM +0000, vda wrote: > > > I know. I'd like to hear anybody who have a directory with r!=x > > on purpose (and quite curious on that purpose). UNIX gugus, anybody? > > ftp://.../incoming > > Tim. > */ > It doesn't make any difference if it's useful. It is a de-facto standard. Therefore, it must exist. It's just like all the stuff in the C runtime library you never use like bcopy()! If everybody in the world wanted to get rid of that dumb bit, you still couldn't do it. It needs to exists for no other reason than it has existed. Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.4.1 on an i686 machine (799.53 BogoMips). I was going to compile a list of innovations that could be attributed to Microsoft. Once I realized that Ctrl-Alt-Del was handled in the BIOS, I found that there aren't any. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/