From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <200110181400.f9IE0sd13978@new-york.lcs.mit.edu> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] permissions From: "Russ Cox" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 10:00:53 -0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 0a9d73bc-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 From intro(5), ``A walk in a directory is regarded as executing the directory, not reading it.'' Note it says ``in'' and not ``into''. The directory you were in was still chmod +x. I bet you can't cd .. back out of your 664 directory.