Some time ago, in a newsgroud discussion, there was a discussion about file access for line commands. I don't recall the specifics because discussion quickly turned to insults, but there are some under-the-hood inheritances.
I am sticking to High Sierra, so not affected by this. There is a process inheritance issue. The "ls" (or any other) command is a subprocess created by bash (or whatever shell you use such as sh). But how bash/sh is created is not so clear. Consider this: from terminal.app window under GUI user ABC, you can issue the command: xterm -e login & an xterm window is created (assume under user ABC) with the login process. That login process then creates a bash (or sh) process under the user DEF. Does that process inherit any special attributes from ABC? It isn't clear to me whom bash/ls inherit any special file access flags from (since not clear to me at what level OS-X implemented these restrictions). _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. X11-users mailing list (X11-users@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/x11-users/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
