Re: [Sheflug] A question on Ownership

["Chris J" <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Setting the x permission is a bit silly, since I then mount the drive with
> noexec, but this makes all the files in my dos partition show up a lovely
> green colour in a directory listing. Just another reminder that I'm currently
> in a dos drive.

You need the execute bit to cd into directories[1]; so it's not that silly :) 
Try chmod'ing a directory to 644/600/666/444/etc ... you'll not be able to cd 
into the thing. Execute is required to traverse :)

Chris...
[1] as a normal user; for some reason root can traverse without execute a 
quick test has revealed[2] ... which seems obscure to me, but hey, who am I 
do argue with the superuser :)

[2] which I didn't think was possible...anyone know if (a) this is a new 
property of ext2fs on Linux[3], and/or (b) do other UNIXes mirror this 
behaviour?

[3] I'm running 2.4.18 ...

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