Re: x bit for dirs: misfeature?

Richard B. Johnson
2001-11-19T15:29:54Z

On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Tim Waugh wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 04:58:38PM +0000, 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?
>
> ftp://.../incoming
>
> Tim.
> */
>

It doesn't make any difference if it's useful. It is a de-facto
standard. Therefore, it must exist. It's just like all the stuff
in the C runtime library you never use like bcopy()!

If everybody in the world wanted to get rid of that dumb bit,
you still couldn't do it. It needs to exists for no other reason
than it has existed.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson

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