On Oct 14 2007 09:27, Mark Lord wrote: > Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: >> On Sat, 2007-10-13 22:40:23 +0530, vignesh babu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> > I was surprised and did an ls -l on the files and guess what I found: >> > >> > total 0 >> > ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? fcntl.c >> > ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? fifo.c >> > ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? filesystems.c >> > ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? file_table.c >> > ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? freevxfs >> > >> > So end result is that, Im not able to delete the files or change perms >> > or ownership even as root. >> >> Most probably, your filesystem is broken and needs a fsck. > > No, this is perfectly normal behaviour, for when a directory > has READ permissions but not EXECUTE permissions.
Er, close. 16:02 ichi:/dev/shm > md a 16:02 ichi:/dev/shm > touch a/b 16:02 ichi:/dev/shm > chmod 644 a 16:02 ichi:/dev/shm > ls -l a /bin/ls: cannot access a/b: Permission denied total 0 -????????? ? ? ? ? ? b 16:02 ichi:/dev/shm > ls --version ls (GNU coreutils) 6.9 There is a difference .. "-?????????" vs "?---------". The first looks to me like "filetype known (S_IFREG)", while the latter is "filetype and mode unknown". - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/