From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
To: Helge Hafting <helgehaf@idb.hist.no>
Cc: Thomas Hood <jdthood@mail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: x bit for dirs: misfeature?
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 15:00:46 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011121150046.A4037@mikef-linux.matchmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1006272306.9039.18.camel@thanatos> <3BFB831F.49284E42@idb.hist.no>
In-Reply-To: <3BFB831F.49284E42@idb.hist.no>
On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 11:34:07AM +0100, Helge Hafting wrote:
> Thomas Hood wrote:
> > However, a decent reason for having separate r and x
> > is that "r--" directories _do_ make sense. When a
> > directory is "r--", its contents can be _listed_ but the
> > directory cannot be browsed. Observe: // Thomas Hood
>
> But is that useful?
> Sure, I can list filenames. I can't get at filesize
> or permissions. I can't open the files. How
> is that useful? Of course locking people
> out is useful, but why should they need to read
> the filenames?
>
To taunt them? ;)
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2001-11-20 16:05 x bit for dirs: misfeature? Thomas Hood
2001-11-21 10:34 ` Helge Hafting
2001-11-21 23:00 ` Mike Fedyk [this message]
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2001-11-19 14:36 ` James A Sutherland
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2001-11-20 12:01 ` Alexander Viro
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2001-11-19 15:19 ` Mathijs Mohlmann
2001-11-19 15:36 ` Gerhard Mack
2001-11-19 16:19 ` Horst von Brand
2001-11-19 22:36 ` Lionel Bouton
2001-11-19 15:12 ` Mathijs Mohlmann
2001-11-19 17:41 ` vda
2001-11-20 0:38 ` Albert D. Cahalan
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