Re: [Sheflug] A question on Ownership

[Will Newton <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 15 Apr 2002 12:35 am, Chris J wrote:

> Hmm...must see if Digital UNIX (strong BSD) and Solaris (strong SysV) do
> this (which means summat to look at at work tomoz [if I can find a Sun box
> to play on]). Certainly a new one, but then I've never seen a directory
> without execute :) I certainly don't recall ever seeing this behaviour
> documented anyware.

I was under the impression that Solaris was more BSD than SysV. To the extent 
that Sun is a Berkeley company, although it does have SysV features I thought 
it was derived from SunOS which was almost the same as BSD 4.3.

And unfortunately I also thought DEC UNIX was more of a SysV type of thing.

Oh well. :)

BTW the x bit is equatable to "listable" when added to a directory. If a user 
has no x bit they have no access to list a directory. Root can read and write 
regardless of bits, and so can also list regardless of bits also. Or am I 
missing the point?
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