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From: James A Sutherland <jas88@cam.ac.uk>
To: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>,
        vda <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
Subject: Re: x bit for dirs: misfeature?
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 17:24:59 +0000
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On Monday 19 November 2001 4:44 pm, Horst von Brand wrote:
> vda <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> said:
>
> [...]
>
> > > [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.
>
> Probably some alias. "/bin/ls test" should work, "/bin/ls -l test" won't.

Correct: my default ls is trying to stat the files to pick a pretty color for 
them...

> > > 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
>
> X sets x for dirs, leaves files alone.

Which sounds like exactly the behaviour the original poster wanted, AFAICS?


James.
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