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Posted by Jochem Maas on 05/04/05 18:03
Marcus Bointon wrote:
> I've run into a little problem. The docs for getcwd() mentions: "On
> some Unix variants, getcwd() will return FALSE if any one of the parent
> directories does not have the readable or search mode set, even if the
> current directory does." OS X is evidently one of these, and it's
> stopping Smarty running at all as it causes the
> smarty_core_create_dir_structure function to fail in userdir sites.
>
> This means that I have to give read and execute permissions to /, /
> Users, /Users/marcus, /Users/marcus/Sites etc, which is not great for
> userdir sites. I noticed that the permissions on /Users is:
>
> drwxrwxr-t 12 root admin 408 Apr 29 21:58 ./
>
> I can't find any docs on what the 't' bit means. Anyone know?
it means the 'sticky bit' is on.
plenty of documentation about the sticky bit to get confused about :-)
here is one to start you off....:
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/hp/hpux-faq/section-70.html
can't help you with OSX tho.
(apart from to say it looks nicer than windows on the whole :-)
>
> Any other workarounds for this?
>
> TIA,
>
> Marcus
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