Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 09:08:08 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Alexander Bezroutchko <abb@zenon.net> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problem with permission at mount point again. Message-ID: <369F67E8.E778EABA@softweyr.com> References: <369F3FBD.ED99E422@zenon.net>
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Alexander Bezroutchko wrote:
>
> I have a problem with permission at mount point.
>
> 2.2.7-STABLE behaves as described in thread titled 'permission confusion
> at mount point' (freebsd-hackers, July 1998) and the CAVEATS section of
> mount(8), it's bad for me (I have to shutdown running server), but
> understandable:
>
> [...]
>
> As far as I understand, in compliance with manpage commands 13 & 15 must
> return 'Permission denied'. Behaviour described in the thread was
> claimed
> as correct and only possible. So why pwd and cd succeeds but ls fails ?
Because neither cd nor pwd attempt to read/list the directory contents,
they just set and get the per-process working directory.
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