On Fri, 9 May 2003, Joshua Slive wrote:

>
> On Fri, 9 May 2003, Jeff Trawick wrote:
> > hurray for truss!
>
> Good quick sluthing.
>
> > > If a directory has insufficient perms (700), apache will report in
> > the error_log that "stat() returned u\
> > nexpected error[13]" for _each_ possible index file in
> > srm.con:DirectoryIndex. Errno 13, according to /us\
> > r/include/sys/errno.h, is EACCES "Permissio
> > n denied". This tends to fill up the error_log unnecessarily, and more
> > important error messages get lost \
> > in the noise. I would imagine the code should check to see if the
> > errno=EACCES, and just return FORBIDDEN\
> > , without logging an error.
>
> Having one error for each item in the DirectoryIndex (ie, one for
> index.html, index.htm, and index.php) seems like a small penalty for
> deobfiscating this error. I hope, however, that the OS returns a useful
> error like (from the freebsd stat() manpage) "Search permission is denied
> for a component of the path prefix."
>
> Anyway, +1 on concept for reversing that change, but I don't have a 1.3
> install to test.

Yes. I am also +1 on this, and have numerous 1.3 installations on which
I can test it.

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