Re: bug found from ls command

2009-07-11 Thread James Youngman
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:02 AM, James Youngmanj...@gnu.org wrote: [+bug-findutils] On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 5:36 PM, PGpgscoo...@gmail.com wrote: ah, great! thank you for the info. That helps me understand a lot. Now I see why find fails. And perhaps it's not worth the extra computation time

Re: bug found from ls command

2009-07-08 Thread James Youngman
[+bug-findutils] On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 5:36 PM, PGpgscoo...@gmail.com wrote: ah, great! thank you for the info. That helps me understand a lot. Now I see why find fails. And perhaps it's not worth the extra computation time required to, upon failure of cd'ing into the directory, trying to

Re: bug found from ls command

2009-07-07 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to PG on 7/6/2009 11:21 PM: Dear coreutils, Actually, I'm not sure if ls is the perpetrator, but maybe you guys can find out where things go wrong. I do not think that the filename canttouchthis should be listed when I am not root in

Re: bug found from ls command

2009-07-07 Thread Philip Rowlands
On Mon, 6 Jul 2009, PG wrote: r...@system76-pc:/home/xinwei/bugreport# ls -l total 4 d---r--r-- 2 root root 4096 2009-07-05 13:27 protected xin...@system76-pc:~/bugreport$ ls -l protected/ ls: cannot access protected/canttouchthis: Permission denied total 0 -? ? ? ? ?

Re: bug found from ls command

2009-07-07 Thread PG
ah, great! thank you for the info. That helps me understand a lot. Now I see why find fails. And perhaps it's not worth the extra computation time required to, upon failure of cd'ing into the directory, trying to list it. I still think there should be an option for find that one could turn on