Re: wierd file perms

[Mark Lord]

Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-10-13 22:40:23 +0530, vignesh babu <vigneshbabu@xxxxxxxxx> 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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