From: Guest section DW <dwguest@win.tue.nl>
To: "David S." <davids@idiom.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Anomalous results from access(2)
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 02:57:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011016025742.A10992@win.tue.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011015151809.D372@malign.rad.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20011015151809.D372@malign.rad.washington.edu>; from David S. on Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 03:18:09PM -0700
On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 03:18:09PM -0700, David S. wrote:
> [1.] Anomalous results from access(2)
>
> [2.] When by root run against files in the ext2 file system, access(2)
> reports non-executable files as executable. For a non-privileged
> user, access(2) reports non-executable files as non-executable.
All is entirely according to specs. I added the sentence
If the process has appropriate privileges, an implementa-
tion may indicate success for X_OK even if none of the
execute file permission bits are set.
to access.2.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-16 0:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-15 22:18 David S.
2001-10-15 22:32 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-16 0:57 ` Guest section DW [this message]
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