Re: [9fans] `test -x` returns wrong results for directories

[Charles Forsyth <charles.forsyth@gmail.com>]

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>
> "search" is exactly the wrong word for what this bit does, because if you
> don't have "search" permission, the one thing you can still do is look at
> the names.


in ramfs, but that's a bug that no-one had noticed

On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 3:05 AM <ori@eigenstate.org> wrote:

> >>> So, cd'ing into a directory withut +x leads
> >>> to an inescapabler trap.
> >> ...
> >> fossil just moved up another notch in my estimation because directory
> search restriction is so broken.
> >
> > ori@eigenstate.org, what version of fossil were your experiments done
> on?
> > My observations are different:
> >
> > term% mkdir -p d/a/b
> > term% touch d/x
> > term% chmod -x d
> > term% ls -ld d
> > d-rw-r--r-- M 12 miller miller 0 Jun  7 16:38 d
> > term% cd d
> > term% cd ..
> > term% ls d
> > d/a
> > d/x
> > term%
> >
> > No trap that I can see here.
>
> cwfs, but -- yeah, it's enforced inconsistently across
> different file systems. (of course).
>
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