Parent directory's permissions in mini-status

Leonard den Ottolander leonard at den.ottolander.nl
Sun Apr 3 12:25:04 UTC 2005


Hi Pavel,

On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 15:27, Pavel Tsekov wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Sergey Ilyevsky wrote:
> > It seems that mc shows wrong permission for parent dir in mini-status,
> > or in long-file (or user-defined) listing mode.

> Yep - the '..' (parent dir) entry is bogus. If i remember right this was
> made on purpose because if you are using remote vfs (ssh, ftp) it can take
> a long time to stat the parent dir. You can check the mc-devel archives
> for further info.

Totally missed this post as Sergey misdated his. That makes Roland and
my patch rather redundant. Do you happen to have a pointer to any of the
messages you are referring to?

Leonard.

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