Re: bug found from ls command

[Philip Rowlands]

On Mon, 6 Jul 2009, PG wrote:

> address@hidden:/home/xinwei/bugreport# ls -l
> total 4
> d---r--r-- 2 root root 4096 2009-07-05 13:27 protected

> address@hidden:~/bugreport$ ls -l protected/
> ls: cannot access protected/canttouchthis: Permission denied
> total 0
> -????????? ? ? ? ?                ? canttouchthis

http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/Mode-Structure.html
---
   There are three kinds of permissions that a user can have for a file:

  1. permission to read the file.  For directories, this means
     permission to list the contents of the directory.
---

A directory with "read" permission allows the directory to be listed. 
This is not a bug.


> address@hidden:~/bugreport$ find ./ -name canttouchthis

Curiously I get a different error here:

$ find ./ -name canttouchthis
find: ./protected: Permission denied

In theory find could show the file, but it attempts to chdir into the 
directory before listing, which is not allowed by the directory 
permissions.


Cheers,
Phil