Re: odd behaviour of "pwd" & "df" after Live Upgrade?

From: Richard L. Hamilton (Richard.L.Hamilton_at_mindwarp.smart.net)
Date: 08/26/04 

Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 01:22:56 -0000

In article <uiefz6bf1wb.fsf@socrates.berkeley.edu>,
        Rusty Wright <rusty@socrates.Berkeley.EDU> writes:
> You're doing it as root, that's why it succeeded.
>
> Unix has always behaved this way; if the directory a filesystem is
> mounted on has restrictive permissions then pwd can fail.

Ok, I just recreated it, and in another post pegged it to EACCESS on
the .. of the top-level directory of the mounted filesystem, which is
apparently being mapped to the underlying mount point, and incorrectly,
the permissions on the underlying mount point are being applied to
accessing that even when it's a special case like that.

I would think that permission 0111 on the underlying mount point would be
sufficient to prevent that until (if/when) it's fixed. 

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