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Subject: Re: [9fans] permissions
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
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Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 10:28:11 -0400
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It's useful to be able to walk into useless directories.
If you couldn't walk into them, you couldn't bind over them.
(For example, /mail/fs.)