Re: bug found from ls command

[Eric Blake]

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According to PG on 7/6/2009 11:21 PM:
> Dear coreutils,
> 
> Actually, I'm not sure if ls is the perpetrator, but maybe you guys can find
> out where things go wrong. I do not think that the filename "canttouchthis"
> should be listed when I am not root in the following situation:

Not a bug.  Just because you can't stat() a file does not mean you can't
learn of its existence via readdir().  ls is properly a) telling you that
the file exists because readdir() said so, and b) warning you that it
couldn't stat() the file because of permissions.

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             address@hidden
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