[osol-discuss] bug or change of semantics?

[Casper.Dik at Sun.COM]

>Hi,
>
>I observed the following behavior concerning the readability of directory content that I don't und
erstand. This occurred on both Solaris releases with UFS filesystems.
>
>thomas at azalin:/var/a$ uname -a
>SunOS azalin 5.10 Generic_118833-33 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-2500
>thomas at azalin:/var/a$ id
>uid=1000(thomas) gid=1000(thomas)
>thomas at azalin:/var/a$ ls -ld chris
>drwx------    2 chris    chris         512 Jan  4 21:04 chris/
>thomas at azalin:/var/a$ ls -l chris
>ls: chris/a: Permission denied
>total 0
>
>thomas at grima:/var/tmp$ uname -a
>SunOS grima 5.8 Generic_117350-43 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-60
>thomas at grima:/var/tmp$ id
>uid=1000(thomas) gid=1000(thomas)
>thomas at grima:/var/tmp$ ls -ld chris
>drwx------    2 chris    chris         512 Jan  4 20:51 chris/
>thomas at grima:/var/tmp$ ls -l chris
>ls: chris: Permission denied
>
>As you can see, ls lists the name of files within the directory which is neither readable nor exec
utable by the user calling ls...
>
>Can anybody explain this change in behavior?

There is no such change in behaviour (none that I can reproduce).

What does "ppriv $$" say in the first case?

Casper