From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
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Subject: Re: [9fans] chdir to mode 000 directory
Date: Thu,  3 Jun 2004 07:49:15 +0200
From: lucio@proxima.alt.za
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> Clearly, I'm missing something..., but how do I interpret
> this behaviour?
> 
> % mkdir dir
> % chmod 000 dir
> % ls -ld dir
> d---------- M 9 nashi nashi 0 Jun  3 10:51 dir
> % cd dir
> %  __chdir succeeds!__
> % pwd
> pwd: permission denied
> -- 

The semantics of directory permissions are different: you can walk to
a directory without permission, but you can't walk to its elements.
It may seem odd, but I presume it is more consistent.  Perhaps a
result of using 9P?

++L