> From: Adam Levin [mailto:[email protected]]
> 
> 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.

Hehehehe.   ;-)  Thank you for providing my morning evil grin.  ;-)  I
should be ashamed I take so much pleasure in this.  ;-)  But I'm not.  Not
really.
 

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