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Re: On the man page mention -readable by whom


From: Bernhard Voelker
Subject: Re: On the man page mention -readable by whom
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2017 13:57:48 +0100
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On 12/31/2017 01:00 PM, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
$ man find

        -readable
               Matches files which are readable.  This takes into account 
access  control  lists  and  other  permissions
               artefacts  which  the -perm test ignores.  This test makes use 
of the access(2) system call, and so can be
               fooled by NFS servers which do UID mapping (or root-squashing), 
since many systems implement access(2)  in
               the client's kernel and so cannot make use of the UID mapping 
information held on the server.

Mention readable by whom, so one need not check the Info manual.

Thanks, the attached fixes it - I'll push next year.

Have a nice day,
Berny

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