From: Jeff Moore <lists@...>
Date: 2012-10-29T05:10:30+09:00
Subject: Re: File.readable? and /proc

Brad Smith wrote in post #1081711:
...
> So it makes sense that you can write or read to it as root.
> Do you get a different result as a non-root user?
>
> take care,
> Brad

As I mentioned to Igor, the inconsistency between File.readable? and the 
output of 'ls -al' when they are both executed as root that I find 
surprising.

When executing as non-root, this file (and several others) are 
unreadable (as expected). That doesn't concern me.

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