Re: [bug #25538] excluded files are still stat()ed

[Phillip Susi]

Kevin Pulo wrote:
> address@hidden:~# du -axk /home/kev/mnt/sf     
> du: cannot access `/home/kev/mnt/sf/home': Permission denied
> 4       /home/kev/mnt/sf
> address@hidden:~# du -axk --exclude=/home/kev/mnt/sf/home /home/kev/mnt/sf
> du: cannot access `/home/kev/mnt/sf/home': Permission denied
> 4       /home/kev/mnt/sf
> address@hidden:~# echo $? 
> 1
> address@hidden:~# 

The fuse mount point is /home/kev/mnt/sf/home right?  I believe this is 
a bug in the fuse kernel filesystem driver.  While it can refuse access 
to the contents of the filesystem, a stat on the mount point itself 
should work and probably return a mode indicating you do not have read 
or execute access to the directory so tools know not to try traversing it.