On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 2:01 PM, David Alban <<a href="mailto:extasia@extasia.org">extasia@extasia.org</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
"...depends on what the meaning of 'is' is..."<br>
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then what does it mean for the file to be readable?<br>
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it's file mode indicates some user,group or the entire world can read it<br>
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or...<br>
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some real user (whether root or not) can actually read it<br>
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apparently there are situations where these aren't the same.</blockquote><div><br>Well, the definition, afaik, is "the current process will succeed if it tried to read this file".<br><br>Dan<br></div></div>
<br>-- <br>Dan Boger