> If you have read permission on a directory but *not* execute permissions,
> then the only thing you can do is read the contents of that directory --
> the filenames and their inode numbers. You cannot stat() the files,
> so you can't see who owns them or even what kind of files they are.
> Just their names.
Never found a situation where this as useful.
> If you have execute permission but *not* read permission on a directory,
> then you can access the files within the directory, but only if you
> already know their names. You can't read the directory to get their
> names.
This OTOH is very handy, making the filename into a kind of "passwd" to
access the file's content.
Stefan
