Subject: bug#17330: files.el cd-absolute overcome false negative from file-executable-p

From: Philip Hodges <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 09:26:21 +0200

> The new f-a-d-p completely ignores permissions

Sorry, I wasn't completely clear. I did not mean that it overcomes permissions to give information about the existence of directories that it cannot even see.

Depending on platform the code looks like it checks for a directory (using faccessat or stat) or checks existence of the . directory within it. It appears to be making checks that depend on certain permissions (in other words actually trying it) instead of inspecting permissions (and being misled by them).