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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!bs From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: 386bsd mount points Message-ID: <172e41INNpd5@disaster.Germany.EU.net> Date: 21 Aug 92 09:47:44 GMT Organization: EUnet Backbone, Dortmund, Germany Lines: 16 NNTP-Posting-Host: walhalla.germany.eu.net Experiment (repeat-by) : Create a directory mode 000 owner root. Mount filesystem on top of that. Give mounted directory permissions 755. Log in as ordinary user. Go into that directory. Type 'pwd' or 'ls -la'. Watch the programs complain about '..'. Tell me why this happens. Thanks, Bernard -- Bernard Steiner, FB Informatik/IRB, Uni Dortmund, vox +49 231 755 2444 Postfach 500500, D-W-4600 Dortmund 50, Germany fax +49 231 755 2386 bs@Germany.EU.net ...!uunet!unido!bs *III And they gave it Instructions, but knew it not. } From The Book of Nome, *IV It is, they said, a Box with a Funny Voice. } Mezzanine v.III-IV