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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!kettle.magna.com.au!metro!news.cs.su.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!in2.uu.net!tandem!zorch.sf-bay.org!scott From: scott@zorch.sf-bay.org (Scott Hazen Mueller) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: latest snap.... Date: 6 Oct 1995 20:31:30 GMT Organization: At Home; Salida, CA Lines: 31 Message-ID: <4543n2$a4h@newshost.loc3.tandem.com> References: <306fe43b@p0.f58.n5100.z2.fidonet.org> <44uhjn$64o@helena.MT.net> <4500m8$7pj@uriah.heep.sax.de> Reply-To: scott@zorch.sf-bay.org NNTP-Posting-Host: zorch.sf-bay.org In article <4500m8$7pj@uriah.heep.sax.de>, j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes: >uriah # chmod 700 /mnt >uriah # mount localhost:/usr/release /mnt [...] >j@uriah 83% ls -ld .. >ls: ..: Permission denied >Ooops! What't this? Since the _underlying_ (shadowed) mount point is >mode 700, .. cannot be referenced through it! Weird... (but broken in >the same way on many other systems.) It gets better: # chmod 700 /mnt # mount zorch:/export /mnt # ls /mnt etc/ local/ src/ home/ scratch/ var/ # suspend Suspended % ls /mnt etc/ local/ src/ home/ scratch/ var/ % cd /mnt % pwd pwd: Permission denied -- Scott Hazen Mueller | scott@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG or tandem!zorch!scott