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Re: On the man page mention -readable by whom
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James Youngman |
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Re: On the man page mention -readable by whom |
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Mon, 1 Jan 2018 09:54:56 +0000 |
Find uses access(2) to implement -readable. Unfortunately that doesn't
actually translate into a guarantee that the file can really be read by the
find process (or the user running it) among other reasons because NFS
clients have no way (in NFS <= 3 at least) to apply the same set of access
control checks that the server does. Root squashing, for example.
So while, yes, a clearer description would be helpful, it's not quite as
simple as "by whom". As always, a specific suggestion for a change in the
form of a patch is very welcome.
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