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Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 10:42:36 -0800
From: J Sloan <jjs@lexus.com>
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Subject: Re: x bit for dirs: misfeature?
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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?

Absolutely -

It is quite common to have dirs with perms 711 -

This allows arbitrary users to copy specific files
from such a directory, but does not allow them to
cd into that directory or to browse it.

Losing that distinction would be crippling.

cu

jjs

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