The following reply was made to PR kern/36963; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jan Danielsson <jan.m.danielsson@gmail.com>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/36963
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 23:06:12 +0200

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    I put together the program below. And tried running it in various
 environments.
 
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 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <dirent.h>
 
 int main(void)
 {
 	DIR *dirp = opendir(".");
 	if (dirp != NULL)
 	{
 		puts("Success!");
 		(void)closedir(dirp);
 	}
 	else
 	{
 		puts("Error!");
 	}
 	return 0;
 }
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    Using my normal "jan" user (it has never exhibited the permission
 problem):
 
 $ gcc -o permtest permtest.c
 $ ./permtest
 Success!
 $ cp permtest /tmp/permtest
 $ chmod 755 /tmp/permtest
 $ ls -l /tmp | grep perm
 - -rwxr-xr-x  1 jan   wheel   8431 Sep 16 22:55 permtest
 
 root:
 
 # useradd -m test
 # su - test
 $ pwd
 /home/test
 $ /tmp/permtest
 Error!
 
 .. a few minutes later ..
 
 # su - test
 $ /tmp/permtest
 Success!
 
    Note: No changes were made between the runs. It will revert to
 showing "Error!" sooner or later.
 
 
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 Kind regards,
 Jan Danielsson
 
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