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Message-ID: <47121943.2030902@rtr.ca> Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 09:27:31 -0400 From: Mark Lord <lkml@....ca> To: vignesh babu <vigneshbabu@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: wierd file perms Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > On Sat, 2007-10-13 22:40:23 +0530, vignesh babu <vigneshbabu@...il.com> wrote: >> I was surprised and did an ls -l on the files and guess what I found: >> >> total 0 >> ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? fcntl.c >> ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? fifo.c >> ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? filesystems.c >> ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? file_table.c >> ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? freevxfs >> >> So end result is that, Im not able to delete the files or change perms >> or ownership even as root. > > Most probably, your filesystem is broken and needs a fsck. No, this is perfectly normal behaviour, for when a directory has READ permissions but not EXECUTE permissions. Eg. mkdir a touch a/b chmod 644 a ls -l a Try it! Cheers - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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