Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 Nov 2001 15:00:46 -0800 | From | Mike Fedyk <> | Subject | Re: x bit for dirs: misfeature? |
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On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 11:34:07AM +0100, Helge Hafting wrote: > Thomas Hood wrote: > > However, a decent reason for having separate r and x > > is that "r--" directories _do_ make sense. When a > > directory is "r--", its contents can be _listed_ but the > > directory cannot be browsed. Observe: // Thomas Hood > > But is that useful? > Sure, I can list filenames. I can't get at filesize > or permissions. I can't open the files. How > is that useful? Of course locking people > out is useful, but why should they need to read > the filenames? >
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