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From: lvc@cbnews.ATT.COM (Lawrence V. Cipriani)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: PWD gives getwd: couldn't open .. on world r-x root directories
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Date: 4 Nov 88 17:40:33 GMT
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In article <1165@ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu> tar@ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu (Tim Ramsey) writes:
>It seems odd that the permissions of the mount point affect access to the
>mounted file system.  Is this a bug or feature?
This is a feature.  The permissions of the mount point determine the permission
of the directory after the mount.  The permission on the raw disk only control
access to that disk device as if it was a file.

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Larry Cipriani, AT&T Network Systems, Columbus OH,
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