samba - Jan 2002 - Repost: "hide unreadable" problems with samba-2.2.2 and FreeBSD

[I got no replies the last time I posted this]

I had previously done some hacking in the source code of 2.0.x to hide
unreadable files
and was delighted to be able to turn this on and off via a config option in
samba 2.2.
Unfortunatley, it only seems to work with _files_. Unreadable/unscannable
_directories_
are not hidden.
Is this intended behaviour or is there a flaw in the code? Does this problem
exists on
Linux implementations? I guess I could ask a lot of direct questions about it,
but the
upshot is, what's the deal?
I did a quick hack in dir.c to replace user_can_read_file() with a call to
access(1), which
seems a lot simpler anyway. Is access(1) not portable across platforms?

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Bill Moran
Potential Technology
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