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From: Matthew Hannigan <mlh@zip.com.au>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] permissions
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 22:34:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BD5D457.D28FAE72@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200110181428.f9IESCd03589@new-york.lcs.mit.edu>


Is the distinction between x and r for directories
really that useful?   When does it matter?  I can
only think of "inbox" type directories.

I'm still thinking of being able to get rid of the
'x' permission on everything.

-Matt


Russ Cox wrote:
> 
> 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.)


  reply	other threads:[~2001-10-23 20:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-18 14:28 Russ Cox
2001-10-23 20:34 ` Matthew Hannigan [this message]
2001-10-24  8:44   ` Douglas A. Gwyn
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-10-17  5:35 Benjamin Huntsman
2010-10-17  6:00 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2010-10-17  6:19   ` erik quanstrom
2010-10-17  6:36     ` Benjamin Huntsman
2010-10-17 13:59       ` erik quanstrom
2010-10-17 16:01       ` blstuart
2010-10-17 16:11         ` erik quanstrom
2010-10-17 17:17           ` ron minnich
2010-10-17 18:11         ` Benjamin Huntsman
2010-10-17 18:18           ` erik quanstrom
2010-10-17 19:17             ` blstuart
2010-10-17 19:59               ` Benjamin Huntsman
2010-10-17 20:40                 ` blstuart
2010-10-17 21:22                   ` Benjamin Huntsman
2010-10-17 22:56                     ` erik quanstrom
2010-10-18  9:00                       ` Steve Simon
2010-10-18  9:29                         ` dave.l
2010-10-18  9:34                         ` Bruce Ellis
2010-10-18 11:07                         ` Dave Eckhardt
2010-10-18 11:11                           ` Bruce Ellis
2010-10-17 22:58                     ` blstuart
2010-10-19 18:18                 ` Nathaniel W Filardo
2010-10-17 23:00               ` erik quanstrom
2001-10-18 14:00 Russ Cox
2001-10-18 14:12 ` Lucio De Re
2001-10-18 13:56 Lucio De Re

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