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From: vda <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
To: James A Sutherland <jas88@cam.ac.uk>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: x bit for dirs: misfeature?
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 18:24:11 +0000
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On Monday 19 November 2001 16:00, you wrote:
> On Monday 19 November 2001 4:58 pm, vda wrote:
> > On Monday 19 November 2001 14:36, James A Sutherland wrote:
> > > $ mkdir test
> > > $ echo content > test/file
> > > $ chmod a-r test
> > > $ ls test
> > > ls: test: permission denied
> > > $ cat test/file
> > > content
> > > $ chmod a=r test
> > > $ ls test
> > > ls: test/file: Permission denied
> >
> > Hmm... I do actually tested this and last command succeeds
> > (shows dir contents). You probably meant cat test/file, not ls...
>
> Nope, ls.
>
> [james@dax p2i]$ ls test
> ls: test/file: Permission denied
> [james@dax p2i]$ ls -l test
> ls: test/file: Permission denied
> total 0

Looks like we have different ls :-). Mine lists 'r only' dir with no problem.

> Anyway, as Al Viro has pointed out, R!=X. It's been like that for a very
> long time, it's deliberate, not a misfeature, and it's staying like that
> for the foreseeable future.

Yes, I see... All I can do is to add workarounds (ok,ok, 'support')
to chmod and friends:

chmod -R a+R dir  - sets r for files and rx for dirs

--
vda
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