From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5752ba976f4dad11 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: kst@thomsoft.com (Keith Thompson) Subject: Re: GNAT 3.01 Source For OS/2 Date: 1996/05/07 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 153412379 sender: news@thomsoft.com (USENET News Admin @flash) x-nntp-posting-host: pulsar references: organization: Thomson Software Products, San Diego, CA, USA newsgroups: comp.lang.ada originator: kst@pulsar Date: 1996-05-07T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes: > Joe said > > > Why don't you go and look ???? There is nothing in the > > pub/gnat/private directory. You may be right about the README, > > but there still ain't nothin where YOU said there would be !!!! > > Robert replies > > Umm, can you learn to read just a ltitle more carefully, my message > (and the README file!) says pub/gnat/private/old, not pub/gnat/private. The source of the confusion, I think, is that the permissions on the pub/gnat/private directory are set to "rwx--x--x" (711). This allows users to access files and directories under that directory if they already know their names, but not to get a directory listing. (There may well be things other than "old" in there, but I can't tell.) It's a common way to hide things on a public ftp site while still allowing access for those who know what they're looking for. So, from within the ftp program, if you do this: cd /pub/gnat/private dir it will give you an empty listing, as if there were nothing there. If, however, you do this: cd /pub/gnat/private/old dir you'll get a listing of all the files there. You can't get to /pub/gnat/private/old by traversing one directory at a time, but you can get there directly. It's arguably a bug in ftp that the "dir" command doesn't visibly distinguish between empty and non-readable directories. Robert: it might be a good idea to put the "old" directory directly under "/pub/gnat" rather than "hiding" it in "private". -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst@thomsoft.com <*> TeleSoft^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Alsys^H^H^H^H^H Thomson Software Products 10251 Vista Sorrento Parkway, Suite 300, San Diego, CA, USA, 92121-2718 This sig uses the word "Exon" in violation of the Communications Decency Act.