On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 01:49:34AM +0200, Giampaolo Rodol? <g.rod...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I've just noticed a strange behavior when dealing with gvfs filesystems:
>
> giampaolo@ubuntu:~$ python -c "import os;
> print(os.path.exists('/home/giampaolo/.gvfs'))"
> True
> giampaolo@ubuntu:~$ sudo su
> root@ubuntu:~# python -c "import os;
> print(os.path.exists('/home/giampaolo/.gvfs'))"
> False
>
> This is due to os.stat() which internally fails with PermissionError (EACCES).
BTW, the same is true for FUSE when an FS has been mounted without
something like "-o allow_other" or "-o allow_root":
root@nb # ls /home/phd/mnt/net
ls: cannot access /home/phd/mnt/net: Permission denied
Oleg.
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