> 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. _______________________________________________ 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/
