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biggerfisch

$ mkdir file.txt

$ ls -l

drwxr-xr-x 2 USER GROUP 4096 Nov 21 11:49 file.txt

$ chmod -xw file.txt

$ for i in {1..180}; do touch file.txt/long_name_$i; done

$ ls -l

dr--r--r-- 2 USER GROUP 12288 Nov 21 11:50 file.txt

File size is a bit off, but that's based on sector size and may be separately configurable - that's a bit beyond my knowledge.

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but she says right above it:

"So, for example, if a process is owned by the julia user and julia is in the awesome group, then the process would be allowed to read this file."

I'm not sure what you aren't understanding. Directories are just a type of file, so that's not wrong, the dir/file is owned by the `awesome` group, and the group permissions are `r--` so the group can indeed read it.

Or one could apply Occam's razor and admit that "d" was a typo.

Of course, that's a much more likely scenario. I was attempting to show that the line was not completely nonsensical is all.

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