Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 2/2] maint: prohibit access(,X_OK)

On 03/18/2011 02:46 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > This simplifies several callers that were repeating checks already > guaranteed by util.c, and makes other callers more robust to now > reject directories. remote_driver.c was over-strict - access(,X_OK) > is not strictly needed to execute a file (although its unusual to see > a file with X_OK but not R_OK). I meant to say that access(,R_OK) is not strictly necessary. But I stand a bit corrected - binaries can be executed without read permission, but scripts require both execute permission (to do the #! search) and read permission (for the interpreter to process the script). Maybe virFileIsExecutable should add a check for readability?