in reply to -r broken on root_squash NFS?

The root_squash option means that root will be mapped to the user nobody. That's why the file is not readable by root.

Sorry, misunderstood the question. See a better answer below.

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Re^2: -r broken on root_squash NFS?
by zigdon (Deacon) on Jun 06, 2008 at 21:23 UTC
    Right... But why does '-r' still says it's readable?

    -- zigdon

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      You're right. I bet perl is determining readability by calling access(2). From the man page: 
        access() may not work correctly on NFS file systems  with  UID  mapping
  enabled,  because UID mapping is done on the server and hidden from the
  client, which checks permissions.
      and root_squash is a server option.
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        Could be, I guess, but a quick strace shows it does call 'stat' to get the permissions. But I guess that, on it's own, doesn't tell if the root is squashed or not, so there's no way for perl to know.

        -- zigdon

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