13 Mar
2013
13 Mar
'13
10:54 a.m.
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 05:28:47PM -0700, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
It's specious to talk about the "existence of
a file" - because you can
see whether the file exists by looking at the contents of the directory,
which you can see.
Not if you don't have read permission to the directory, which was the
entire point. --x is sufficient privilege on a directory to stat one of
its children; r is not required.