David Bartley <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 5:12 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I see no reason for "access(file, X_OK))" should return 0 for > > ordinary files which have no execute bit set. > > > > I think we can just change that. > > This behaviour is controlled by the file_dac_execute privilege. > Processes running as root will always get this privilege in their
Even root can execute things only if at least one "x" bit has been set. The file_dac_execute privilege just controls wheter the "right" bit is required or whether any "x" bit would be OK. Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
