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

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