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From: brucee@runxtsa.runx.oz.au (Bruce Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: search permission on directories
Keywords: root search permission
Message-ID: <2166@runxtsa.runx.oz.au>
Date: 13 Aug 90 13:08:29 GMT
References: <454@alice.marco.UUCP>
Organization: RUNX Unix Timeshare.  Sydney, Australia.
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In article <454@alice.marco.UUCP> you write:
>Yesterday I noticed, that even root does not have search permissions
>on directories with mode d---------. Today I tried it on a real unix

Perhaps the test in FS is backwards. Let d be such a directory and f a
file in it. Then ls d works, while ls -l d and ls d/f fail.
-- 
Bruce Evans
Internet: brucee@runxtsa.runx.oz.au    UUCP: uunet!runxtsa.runx.oz.au!brucee
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