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Re: Difference between file-accessible-directory-p() and file-readable-p
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Difference between file-accessible-directory-p() and file-readable-p() on a directory |
Date: |
Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:19:33 +0300 |
> From: Glenn Morris <rgm+news@stanford.edu>
> Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:04:22 -0700
>
> You need execute permission to access a directory (on a Unix-type
> system; no idea about Windows).
There's no "execute permission" on Windows, on the level on which
`chmod' operates. Programs that want to see Posix-style mode bits,
such as Emacs, invent that bit when they see a directory or an
executable program/script.
(NTFS-style file security does have attributes for directory traversal
and for program execution permissions, but Emacs does not yet support
those, and neither do most ports of `chmod'.)