Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:01:47 -0400 | From | Mark Lord <> | Subject | Re: wierd file perms |
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Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Oct 14 2007 09:27, Mark Lord wrote: >> Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: >>> On Sat, 2007-10-13 22:40:23 +0530, vignesh babu <vigneshbabu@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>>> I was surprised and did an ls -l on the files and guess what I found: >>>> >>>> total 0 >>>> ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? fcntl.c >>>> ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? fifo.c >>>> ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? filesystems.c >>>> ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? file_table.c >>>> ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? freevxfs >>>> >>>> So end result is that, Im not able to delete the files or change perms >>>> or ownership even as root. >>> Most probably, your filesystem is broken and needs a fsck. >> No, this is perfectly normal behaviour, for when a directory >> has READ permissions but not EXECUTE permissions. > > Er, close. > > 16:02 ichi:/dev/shm > md a > 16:02 ichi:/dev/shm > touch a/b > 16:02 ichi:/dev/shm > chmod 644 a > 16:02 ichi:/dev/shm > ls -l a > /bin/ls: cannot access a/b: Permission denied > total 0 > -????????? ? ? ? ? ? b > 16:02 ichi:/dev/shm > ls --version > ls (GNU coreutils) 6.9 > > > There is a difference .. "-?????????" vs "?---------".
That's just a version difference for GNU ls. Here, with ls (GNU coreutils) 5.97 it gives this:
?--------- ? ? ? ? ? a/b
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