Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 05 Dec 2003 15:44:37 +0300 | From | Hans Reiser <> | Subject | Re: The x Bit Problem |
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Grant Miner wrote:
> An interesting thing I discovered is that Windows simply ignores the > 'x' bit (I should say the Windows equivalent of the 'x' bit, called > "traverse folder / execute file"), but there is a policy setting that > overrides this attribute. > > I know users get tripped up on this a lot in Unix, like when they > don't understand why the webserver can't read their public_html > directory. It might be a good option for Linux. > > > The right solution is to have a separate readdir permission, so that a file-directory can be not executable but be listable, and vice-versa. The problem comes from overloading the bit and also changing whether objects can be simultaneously files and directories.
-- Hans
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