On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 05:16:49PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Jonathan Nieder wrote:
>
> > [PATCH] [BUILTIN] Make "test -x" sane again when run as root
>
> Quick correction: a better title would be
>
> [BUILTIN] Fix "test -x" as root
Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> [PATCH] [BUILTIN] Make "test -x" sane again when run as root
Quick correction: a better title would be
[BUILTIN] Fix "test -x" as root on platforms with old-fashioned
faccessat
for brevity ("fix" contains just as much informati
When dash switched from its own emulation to the true faccessat in
v0.5.7~54 (2010-04-02), on some platforms (e.g., old versions of
glibc-bsd), "test -x " started returning true on all files when
run as root. This violates POSIX.1-2008 ยง4.4 "File Access
Permission", which says:
If execute
