Re: ramfs problem... (unlink of sparse file in "D" state)

From: Marc Lehmann (pcg@goof.com)
Date: Mon Jan 08 2001 - 13:54:25 EST

On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 01:33:50PM -0500, Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> wrote:
> And prefix would be what? "/"? Besides, I said that you don't have
> read permissions on /foo, not search ones.

You do not need read permissions on /foo to make pathconf on it. This
makes sense: you are not reading the directory... 

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