From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Difference between file-accessible-directory-p() and file-readable-p() on a directory Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:19:33 +0300 Message-ID: <8363b7v3l6.fsf@gnu.org> References: <2fb357c9-8fd6-4c2b-8e19-201865871b4e@33g2000vbe.googlegroups.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1253866956 20566 80.91.229.12 (25 Sep 2009 08:22:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 08:22:36 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 25 10:22:29 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Mr64T-0001si-0z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:22:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42962 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mr64S-0007CZ-98 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:22:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mr63y-0007Bz-HS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:21:58 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mr63x-0007BT-Ec for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:21:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=45782 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mr63x-0007BK-8L for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:21:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout7.012.net.il ([84.95.2.19]:59811) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mr63w-0006Lt-QC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:21:57 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.i-mtaout7.012.net.il by i-mtaout7.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KQI00F00PT5ZN00@i-mtaout7.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:21:31 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.70.48.81]) by i-mtaout7.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KQI002SSPVU4V30@i-mtaout7.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:21:31 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (1203?) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:68458 Archived-At: > From: Glenn Morris > Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:04:22 -0700 > > You need execute permission to access a directory (on a Unix-type > system; no idea about Windows). There's no "execute permission" on Windows, on the level on which `chmod' operates. Programs that want to see Posix-style mode bits, such as Emacs, invent that bit when they see a directory or an executable program/script. (NTFS-style file security does have attributes for directory traversal and for program execution permissions, but Emacs does not yet support those, and neither do most ports of `chmod'.)