55723 - nsIFile isExecutable() lies and is wrong

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: XPCOM, defect, P3)

Description

[pete collins]

Ex:

js> const FilePath=new Components.Constructor( "@mozilla.org/file/local;1",
"nsILocalFile", "initWithPath");
js> var f=new FilePath('/home/petejc/foo');
js> f.permissions;
420
js> f.isExecutable();
true

This is an utter lie, the above file is *not* executable . . .

--pete

Comment 1

[Pete Collins (MDG)]

You can reassign this to me since i'm doing a bunch of stuff in nsIFile lately.

--pete

Comment 2

[Pete Collins (MDG)]

I looked into this and found that running from root, the libc access call will
always return 0. When i su'd to a local user and tested the came code, the
access modes worked fine.

Chris can you mark this invalid?

Thanks

--pete

Comment 3

[Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)]

OK.