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From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: metas Permission Denied
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 21:55:36 -0700
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To: Grant Miner <mine0057@mrs.umn.edu>
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Grant Miner wrote:

>
>> The traditional semantics of the 'x' bit on directories is awful; 
>> Banyan Vines had an explicit 'scan' attrib on directories for this, 
>> and I believe Windows has something as well. Some way to express 
>> "permission to descend into this directory" as opposed to "permission 
>> to readdir() this directory". Something that is NOT the 'x' bit. 
>> Would be perhaps too awful or impossible to add to POSIX, I don't know.
>
>
> In Windows they also just have a bit for "traverse directory / execute 
> file" and another bit for "list directory / read data".
>
> However, the default policy makes the OS ignore the traverse/execute 
> for directory traversal (but not file execution) entirely!

I don't understand the sentence above.  Is the bit only used by the 
nondefault policies?

>   This might be the way to go in Linux as well.
>
>