On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Ron Artstein wrote: > Now, I consider myself just a little bit above the level of a total > idiot, at least enough to RTFM. Which I did. The problem is, the FM > didn't have the answer. I'm sure it had it somewhere, in the section > about mounting. But I looked in the obvious place, about permissions > (isn't that what the error message said?), and all I could find was > an explanation of file permissions, read/write/execute. What the FM > needed was a line saying that in order to run a file it has to have > execute permissions *and be on a device mounted with the exec flag*. > This would be helpful---give the information where people would look > for it when they have a problem, and remind them of what they might > already know but can't access through their useless brains. I think > this may qualify as a documentation bug. I don't write documentation > for Linux, but if anyone on the list does, you may want to take this > into account. > > Also, I don't know what is the information that system calls get > when they can't access a file. But if they can discriminate between > denied access as a result of file permissions and denied access as > a result of mount options, it would be nice if they could return > this useful information to the user in the form of a meaningful > error message. Does anyone know if this is possible? >
Which manual is the FM you relate to? Anyway, it should have its author's email at the bottom. I suggest you sent the author a documentation bug report. Orna. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
