On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, gerard patel wrote:
At 01:44 PM 12/2/01 +1200, you wrote: <snip>
program, by writting into the users maildir. How this is done is under novel you can Create files in directorys that you cannot see(if that permisson is greated to you). But you can't do this under unix. So the need to implement file i/o for novell files arises.
Wouldn't making the directory 0300 do the trick? $ mkdir tst $ echo foo >tst/foo $ ls -l tst total 4 -rw-rw-r-- 1 fgouget fgouget 4 Feb 11 18:16 foo $ chmod 300 tst $ ls -ld tst d-wx------ 2 fgouget fgouget 4096 Feb 11 18:16 tst/ $ ls -l tst ls: tst: Permission denied $ echo fii >tst/fii But you can still see the files if you know their names: $ ls -l tst/fii -rw-rw-r-- 1 fgouget fgouget 4 Feb 11 18:16 tst/fii $ ls -l tst/foo -rw-rw-r-- 1 fgouget fgouget 4 Feb 11 18:16 tst/foo Isn't this what you want? -- Francois Gouget fgouget(a)free.fr http://fgouget.free.fr/ Linux: It is now safe to turn on your computer.