Re: Git 1.3.2 on Solaris

Linus Torvalds wrote:

quoted

 -   printf ("access: %d\n", access("/etc/motd", X_OK));
[...]
 - will return 0 on solaris - when run as root, even though /etc/motd
 - is not executeable.

This is explicitly allowed by the SUS, even for non-root:

     New implementations are discouraged from returning X_OK unless at 
     least one execution permission bit is set."

which clearly says "Solaris is CRAP" to me.

Just for the record: firefox's download manager performs exactly this
test to decide whether you can 'open with' a file (pretty silly because
the test is done on the freshly downloaded file in the temp dir which
never has an x-bit set).  But I was hit by this effect on my system
which is - surprise surprise - Linux :-)   Ok, it's a pretty old one
with a 2.0 kernel and libc 5.  But nevertheless, access(2) is not the
right function to portably test the x-bit.

Ciao, ET.