From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jonathan Nieder Subject: Re: [PATCH] [BUILTIN] Make "test -x" sane again when run as root Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 17:16:49 -0500 Message-ID: <20110926221648.GF5629@elie> References: <20110926211636.GA6645@elie> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mail-gy0-f174.google.com ([209.85.160.174]:55266 "EHLO mail-gy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751012Ab1IZWQy (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Sep 2011 18:16:54 -0400 Received: by gyg10 with SMTP id 10so4582484gyg.19 for ; Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:16:54 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110926211636.GA6645@elie> Sender: dash-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: dash@vger.kernel.org To: dash@vger.kernel.org Cc: Christoph Egger , Petr Salinger , Herbert Xu Jonathan Nieder wrote: > [PATCH] [BUILTIN] Make "test -x" sane again when run as root Quick correction: a better title would be [BUILTIN] Fix "test -x" as root on platforms with old-fashioned faccessat for brevity ("fix" contains just as much information as "make sane") and to make it more obvious that this is supposed to have no effect on platforms like Linux. Sorry for the lack of clarity.