linux-kernel - Re: wierd file perms

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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
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