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From: jxs7451@ritcv.UUCP (jeff)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Permission denied on lined dirs
Message-ID: <9309@ritcv.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 3-Feb-86 15:25:30 EST
Article-I.D.: ritcv.9309
Posted: Mon Feb  3 15:25:30 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 7-Feb-86 22:05:48 EST
Reply-To: jxs7451@ritcv.UUCP (jeff)
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
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Keywords: cat, ln?



I stumbled onto what appears to be a slight bug.  What happened was I was
nosing around through /usr/include and i saw a directory that look interesting
so i went into it.  Apparently it was linked to another directory because
when I did a pwd it gave me /usr/sys/net instead of /usr/include/net.

  Anyway what happened was tried to cat a file that was called at.c
I typed 'cat a*' since it was the only entry starting with a.  Unix said
"at.c permisson denied", but then it went and catted it anyway!
It worked with other cattable files in this directory also.  But when
I typed "cat 'fullfilename'" it just gave me a permission denied.
From some limited tries this only appears to work on directories that
are linked.

  Any there any explinations out there?

 jeff			{allegra,siesmo}!rochester!ritcv!jxs7451
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