> it's open() which is failing. i suppose it should.
>
> if the open fails, maybe access should stat the file, and if it's a
> directory, try dirread(2). or maybe just opening it for reading will
> work. i don't know, i'm new to this bit of plan 9 & i haven't slept.
This is a bit subtle, though -
execute permission on files, meaning here non-directories, is a special
variant of read. a file with mode 0111 can be opened with OEXEC and read(2)
will work as well as exec(2),
but can't be opened with OREAD, because it's not got any of 0444 set. bits
0111 distinguish a file with contents that are
On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 9:38 AM Ethan Gardener wrote:
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> On Fri, Jun 5, 2020, at 8:22 PM, Richard Miller wrote:
> > Looks to me like access(2) is not doing the right thing for directory
> > execute (=search) permission.
>
> thanks for the tip. access is a very simple function. it doesn't do the ri
