Index: hurd-0.6.git20150523/trans/fakeroot.c
===================================================================
--- hurd-0.6.git20150523.orig/trans/fakeroot.c
+++ hurd-0.6.git20150523/trans/fakeroot.c
@@ -796,8 +796,20 @@ netfs_get_dirents (struct iouser *cred,
 		   mach_msg_type_number_t *datacnt,
 		   vm_size_t bufsize, int *amt)
 {
-  return dir_readdir (netfs_node_netnode (dir)->file, data, datacnt,
+  struct netnode *nn = netfs_node_netnode (dir);
+  mode_t real_mode = dir->nn_stat.st_mode;
+  error_t err = 0;
+
+  if ((real_mode & S_IFDIR) && ((real_mode & S_IXUSR) == 0))
+    {
+      nn->openmodes |= O_EXEC;
+      err = netfs_attempt_chmod (cred, dir, real_mode);
+      if (err)
+	return err;
+    }
+  err = dir_readdir (nn->file, data, datacnt,
 		      entry, nentries, bufsize, amt);
+  return err;
 }
 
 error_t