[3173] in testers
Re: sgi 8.1.0: moira locker apps
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Craig Fields)
Fri May 30 17:33:20 1997
Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 17:33:13 -0400
From: Craig Fields <cfields@MIT.EDU>
To: ghudson@MIT.EDU
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU
> I've thought about this. I'm very wary of it because if for some
> reason "moira" looks executable but doesn't show up in the path, we
> get really bad behavior. That might happen if, say,
> /mit/moira/arch/sgi_53/bin/moira were to become system:anyuser l.
I don't understand.
If moira's bin is system:anyuser l, then test -x will come out false
as well.
The only possibility for causing what you're talking about that I can
think of is when the binaries are mode 700 or somesuch. However, that
doesn't seem to break anymore either.
Craig
