linux Directory permissions what real means of x
As i faced you might facing difficulties when understanding "X" permission for directory in linux. Read following and get some idea: In *nix systems directories are also files and thus use the same permission system as for regular files. Note permissions assigned to a directory are not inherited by the files within that directory. Because directories are not used in the same way as regular files, the permissions work slightly (but only slightly) differently. An attempt to list the files in a directory requires read permission for the directory, but not on the files within. An attempt to add a file to a directory, delete a file from a directory, or to rename a file, all require write permission for the directory, but (perhaps surprisingly) not for the files within. Execute permission doesn't apply to directories (a directory can't also be a program). But that permission bit is reused for directories for other purposes. Execute permi...