On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 01:25:36AM -0400, Kirk Hilliard wrote: > Debian users, > > Please help us reproduce an elusive bash bug. > > Bug#62154 reports that Bash gives a "Permission denied" error when it > should complain "No such file or directory", but neither the Bash > maintainer nor I can reproduce it. ask them if they are using kernel 2.3.99 (or maybe some earlier 2.3.* kernel) there has been some notes about this on the kernel list. apparently the kernel has a bug or `feature' where it returns the wrong error. it has nothing to do with bash iirc. > Please execute the following from the command line: > > ./thisdoesnotexist > > Assuming that you do not have a file by such a name, you should see > the following error message: > > bash: ./thisdoesnotexist: No such file or directory > > If, however, you see this error message: > > bash: ./thisdoesnotexist: Permission denied yeah go search the kernel list archives. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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