Hello Andrew,

the fix for permission() that makes it compliant with POSIX.1-2001
apparently was lost. Here is the patch I sent before. (The relevant
lines from the standard text are cited in
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0310.2/0286.html. The fix
proposed in that posting did not handle directories without execute
permissions correctly.)

Could you please apply the attached patch to mainline? Thanks.


Regards,
-- 
Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
SUSE Labs, SUSE LINUX AG