From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 15 08:09:33 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA04365 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 08:09:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from obie.softweyr.com ([204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA04357 for ; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 08:09:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (zaphod.softweyr.com [204.68.178.35]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA09863; Fri, 15 Jan 1999 09:08:08 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <369F67E8.E778EABA@softweyr.com> Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 09:08:08 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr llc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alexander Bezroutchko CC: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problem with permission at mount point again. References: <369F3FBD.ED99E422@zenon.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message