On Fri, 13 Feb 2015, Brandon Allbery wrote: > I've never heard permission "+x" referred to as "search > permission". I thought +x is "execute" permission, which is > surely more dangerous than +r read permission. > > How do you execute a directory? +x *on directories* is "search". > Likewise setuid/setgid/save-text bits have different meanings on > directories (and setugid generally has other meanings non non-executable > files), where they otherwise wouldn't be meaningful.
Unix file permissions are subtle, and were very well thought out. The most beautiful example, of course, would be the permission to remove a file. -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Bliss is a MacBook with a FreeBSD server." http://www.horsfall.org/spam.html (and check the home page whilst you're there) _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
