On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Santanu Chatterjee wrote:

> Dunno why directories need to be executable.

Directories need to be readable in order to read the contents of the 
directory.  Directories need to be executable in order to change to that 
directory.  The execute permission on a directory does not mean that it 
is executable, it means that it can be changed to.

-- 
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-- Nikita Kruschev


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