>Number:         193
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       ls'ing an unreadable directory doesn't give an error
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    gnats-admin (Utility Bug People)
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Mar 31 21:05:03 1994
>Originator:     Mark Weaver
>Organization:
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Email: Mark_Weaver@brown.edu           | Brown University
PGP Key: finger mhw@cs.brown.edu       | Dept of Computer Science
>Release:        current-940330
>Environment:

System: NetBSD cis-ts3-slip4.cis.brown.edu 0.9a EXCELSIOR#0 i386

>Description:
	ls'ing an unreadable directory doesn't give an error.
	Nothing is printed to stdout or stderr, and a 0 result
	code is returned.

>How-To-Repeat:

mhw ~ % mkdir tst
mhw ~ % chmod 111 tst
mhw ~ % ls -lgd tst
d--x--x--x  2 mhw  users  512 Mar 31 23:55 tst/
mhw ~ % ls tst
mhw ~ % echo $?
0
mhw ~ % 

>Fix:
Unknown.
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:


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