can't start mysql56 after move datadir
Dave Horsfall
dave at horsfall.org
Fri Feb 13 12:37:29 PST 2015
On Fri, 13 Feb 2015, Brandon Allbery wrote:
> I've never heard permission "+x" referred to as "search
> permission". I thought +x is "execute" permission, which is
> surely more dangerous than +r read permission.
>
> How do you execute a directory? +x *on directories* is "search".
> Likewise setuid/setgid/save-text bits have different meanings on
> directories (and setugid generally has other meanings non non-executable
> files), where they otherwise wouldn't be meaningful.
Unix file permissions are subtle, and were very well thought out. The
most beautiful example, of course, would be the permission to remove a
file.
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