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From: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
To: vignesh babu <vigneshbabu@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: wierd file perms
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 09:27:31 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47121943.2030902@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071013172848.GE16774@lug-owl.de>

Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-10-13 22:40:23 +0530, vignesh babu <vigneshbabu@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I was surprised and did an ls -l on the files and guess what I found:
>>
>> total 0
>> ?--------- ? ? ? ?                ? fcntl.c
>> ?--------- ? ? ? ?                ? fifo.c
>> ?--------- ? ? ? ?                ? filesystems.c
>> ?--------- ? ? ? ?                ? file_table.c
>> ?--------- ? ? ? ?                ? freevxfs
>>
>> So end result is that, Im not able to delete the files or change perms
>> or ownership even as root.
> 
> Most probably, your filesystem is broken and needs a fsck.

No, this is perfectly normal behaviour, for when a directory
has READ permissions but not EXECUTE permissions.

Eg.

	mkdir a
	touch a/b
	chmod 644 a
	ls -l a

Try it!

Cheers

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-10-14 13:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-13 17:10 wierd file perms vignesh babu
2007-10-13 17:28 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2007-10-14 12:30   ` Bauke Jan Douma
2007-10-14 12:42     ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-10-14 13:27   ` Mark Lord [this message]
2007-10-14 14:05     ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-10-14 20:01       ` Mark Lord
2007-10-15  1:29         ` vignesh babu
2007-10-14 13:29 ` Mark Lord
2007-10-14 13:31   ` Jan-Benedict Glaw

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