On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Michael van Elst wrote:

: 	adosfs translates AmigaOS protection flags into UNIX mode bits.
: 	PROTECTION_READ becomes S_IRUSR, PROTECTION_WRITE becomes S_IWUSR
: 	and PROTECTION_EXECUTE becomes S_IXUSR (and similar for group
: 	and other permissions).
: 	For files this is a correct interpretation of semantics, however for
: 	directories this is not true. AmigaOS ignores the PROTECTION_EXECUTE
: 	bit on directories completely. There is no difference between a
: 	readable directory and an accessible directory as in UNIX.
: 	As a result a directory without PROTECTION_EXECUTE can be used under
: 	AmigaOS but not under NetBSD.

I'm not so sure this should be forced (directories +x).  There are a couple
filesystem patches I have sitting around that add access privilege to
directories, as well as a third-party addition to MultiUserFileSystem.

I vote this stays as is.  chmod +x the directory if you want to access it ;)

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