On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 11:31 AM, Murray Eisenberg < [email protected]> wrote:
> I've never heard permission "+x" referred to as "search permission". I > thought +x is "execute" permission, which is surely more dangerous than +r > read permission. How do you execute a directory? +x *on directories* is "search". Likewise setuid/setgid/save-text bits have different meanings on directories (and setugid generally has other meanings non non-executable files), where they otherwise wouldn't be meaningful. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates [email protected] [email protected] unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
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