Re: RFC: [PATCH] trans/fakeroot.c

[Svante Signell]

On Tue, 2015-06-09 at 10:43 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Svante Signell, le Tue 09 Jun 2015 10:13:46 +0200, a écrit :
> > Done so now. Attached are two versions of a patch to fakeroot.c. In
> > netfs_get_dirents(): call netfs_attempt_chmod() before dir_readdir() to
> > make sure that directories are accessible (executable) before changing
> > the underlying files.
> 
> Why are they not accessible?
> 
> We don't want to browntape-fix the issue, but really understand what is
> happening.

chmod -R 644 <directory> makes all directories drwr--r-- i.e. not
accessible, as I wrote. Is that a brown-tape fix?