On 11/11/20 3:24 PM, Jan Schaumann wrote:
$ ls -la dir
ls: cannot access dir/.: Permission denied
ls: cannot access dir/..: Permission denied
ls: cannot access dir/file: Permission denied
total 0
d????????? ? ? ? ?            ? .
d????????? ? ? ? ?            ? ..
-????????? ? ? ? ?            ? file
$


Expected output:

$ ls -la dir
ls: cannot access dir/.: Permission denied
ls: cannot access dir/..: Permission denied
ls: cannot access dir/file: Permission denied

As Bernhard mentioned, the actual output is intentional. The expected output would be less useful, as it would give the user a bit less information (e.g., it would not tell the user where 'file' is a regular file or a directory).



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