12 Mar
2013
12 Mar
'13
5:48 p.m.
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 10:40:12AM -0700, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
Yeah - fair point, in which case POSIX/SUS3 is using
misleading terminology,
which'll make newbies get it wrong! :-( Search, to me, implies what the
directory read permission is for (ie. what're the contents of the directory)
Search is a different permission from read. Search allows you to test
for the existence of a file within that directory; read allows you to
retrieve the full list. Running stat() on /foo/bar requires search
permission on /foo, but not read permission. The terminology is only
misleading if you don't appreciate that distinction.