Access times on executables (kern/25777)

[Peter Jeremy]

On Sun, May 04, 2003 at 04:51:02PM -0700, Kirk McKusick wrote:
>OK, so how about instead of use VOP_SETATTR, we just try to VOP_READ
>one byte of data.  ...
>It has the drawback of requiring that the file be readable though most
>executables are set to be readable.

I think it's common for set[gu]id executables not to be readable.
Though, looking at my systems, I can only find xterm (from 4.3.0)
and Xwrapper (from 3.3.6) that restrict read access more than
execute access.

Peter