From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
To: Grant Miner <mine0057@mrs.umn.edu>
Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: The x Bit Problem
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 15:44:37 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FD07DB5.6090708@namesys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FD01679.3040007@mrs.umn.edu>
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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2003-12-05 5:24 ` The x Bit Problem Grant Miner
2003-12-05 8:07 ` Bob
2003-12-05 12:30 ` Tomasz Rola
2003-12-05 14:04 ` Tomasz Rola
2003-12-05 12:44 ` Hans Reiser [this message]
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