Re: x bit for dirs: misfeature?

vda
2001-11-19T17:24:15Z

On Monday 19 November 2001 16:44, Horst von Brand wrote:
> > > Anyway, as Al Viro has pointed out, R!=X. It's been like that for a
> > > very long time, it's deliberate, not a misfeature, and it's staying
> > > like that for the foreseeable future.
> >
> > Yes, I see... All I can do is to add workarounds (ok,ok, 'support')
> > to chmod and friends:
> >
> > chmod -R a+R dir - sets r for files and rx for dirs
>
> X sets x for dirs, leaves files alone.

Hmm... yes this is one of such workarounds already implemented.
But it is not very good for my example:
X sets x for dirs *and* for files with x set for any of u,g,o.

# chmod -R a+rX dir

will make any executables (even root only) world-executable.

That's why I'd like to add new flag to chmod: R.
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vda