On Thu, 29 Apr 2010, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > You know what would have been more informative? > $ cat a/.snapshot/test/b/c/info.txt > (I guess the result would be...) > cat: a/.snapshot/test/b/c/info.txt: Permission denied
Indeed, that's exactly correct. In fact, I cannot open a/.snapshot/test/b because it's mode is 700, but I can still open a/c/.snapshot/test/info.txt. > As you showed, "cat: cannot open a/b/c/info.txt" makes perfect sense, > because a/b/c doesn't exist anymore. But a/.snapshot/test/b/c/info.txt does > exist, and should be permission denied. Correct. > Meanwhile, a/c/.snapshot/test/info.txt is just another path to precisely the > same information, but should be permission granted (as you've demonstrated, > it is.) Yes. -Adam _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
