Re: ramfs problem... (unlink of sparse file in "D" state)

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Mon, 8 Jan 2001 13:33:50 -0500 (EST)


On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Stefan Traby wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 01:22:49PM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote:
>
> > Here's another one: suppose that /foo is a mountpoint and you have
> > no read permissions on it. Try to open the thing...
>
> I would return EACCESS.
> [EACCES]
> Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix.

And prefix would be what? "/"? Besides, I said that you don't have
read permissions on /foo, not search ones.

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