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From: J Sloan <jjs@lexus.com>
To: vda <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
Cc: James A Sutherland <jas88@cam.ac.uk>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: x bit for dirs: misfeature?
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 10:42:36 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BF9529C.38228533@lexus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01111916225301.00817@nemo> <E165pWu-0000Pi-00@mauve.csi.cam.ac.uk> <01111916583804.00817@nemo>

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


  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-11-19 18:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-11-19 16:22 x bit for dirs: misfeature? vda
2001-11-19 14:36 ` James A Sutherland
2001-11-19 16:58   ` vda
2001-11-19 15:04     ` Tim Waugh
2001-11-19 15:29       ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-11-19 16:00     ` James A Sutherland
2001-11-19 17:43       ` Kai Henningsen
2001-11-19 18:24       ` vda
2001-11-19 16:44         ` Horst von Brand
2001-11-19 17:24           ` James A Sutherland
2001-11-19 19:39             ` vda
2001-11-19 19:07               ` James A Sutherland
2001-11-20 13:03                 ` vda
2001-11-19 21:01               ` Flavio Stanchina
2001-11-19 19:21           ` vda
2001-11-19 18:14             ` Horst von Brand
2001-11-20 11:20               ` Anton Altaparmakov
2001-11-20 12:01                 ` Alexander Viro
2001-11-20 15:08                 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2001-11-20 17:18                 ` Mike Castle
2001-11-20 17:37                   ` Alexander Viro
2001-11-20 12:58               ` vda
2001-11-19 16:47     ` Jesse Pollard
2001-11-19 17:15       ` David Ford
2001-11-19 17:37     ` Pascal Schmidt
2001-11-19 18:42     ` J Sloan [this message]
2001-11-19 14:46 ` Alexander Viro
2001-11-19 17:03   ` vda
2001-11-19 15:07     ` Shaya Potter
2001-11-19 15:12     ` Alexander Viro
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
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-11-20 16:05 Thomas Hood
2001-11-21 10:34 ` Helge Hafting
2001-11-21 23:00   ` Mike Fedyk

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