On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 10:34:59AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 04:08:45PM +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote: > > That depends on context, program, etc. But if you give the program > > an absolute path, every directory from the root down to the file > > has to be readable for your program. > > Every directory in the path must have the +x bit for you. Not necessarily > the +r bit. > > The +r bit allows you to *read* the directory, in order to see the names > of the files. > > The +x bit allows you to *access* the files in the directory, if you know > their names. You also need the appropriate bits on the file itself, if > you plan to open it (in either read only or read+write mode). Yep, that's right. Thanks for the correction. Cheers - t
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