Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 06:00:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 06:00:46 -0500 Received: from [195.66.192.167] ([195.66.192.167]:62983 "EHLO Port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 06:00:24 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: vda To: Horst von Brand Subject: Re: x bit for dirs: misfeature? Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 12:58:21 +0000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: James A Sutherland , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200111191814.fAJIEPlQ019878@pincoya.inf.utfsm.cl> In-Reply-To: <200111191814.fAJIEPlQ019878@pincoya.inf.utfsm.cl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01112012582101.00810@nemo> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Monday 19 November 2001 18:14, Horst von Brand wrote: > vda said: > > On Monday 19 November 2001 16:44, Horst von Brand wrote: > > [...] > > > > X sets x for dirs, leaves files alone. > > > > Hmm... yes this is one of such workarounds already implemented. > > But it is not very good for my example: > > X sets x for dirs *and* for files with x set for any of u,g,o. > > > > # chmod -R a+rX dir > > > > will make any executables (even root only) world-executable. > > That's what you are asking for... ?! I'm asking for ability to make a tree _world-readable_ (and browsable), i.e. a+r on files and a+rx on dirs. There is currently no chmod flag which will do that. -- vda - 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/