Bug in ash under Xenix/286

[G. Geers [ext 3241]]

I got hold of Kenneth Almquist's program ash a couple of days ago and have
succeeded in getting it to compile on a 286 Xenix system. There is one annoying
bug, however: If an executable (shell script or binary) is not owned by 
root and does not have public execute permission (and read for shell scripts)
then root cannot run it.  I only noticed this since several shell scripts
in /etc are owned by bin and are -rwx------ mode. Root, however, should really
be able to run these scripts without having to su.

Has anyone else had this problem ? Any help would be appreciated.
			Thanks,
				Glenn

glenn at extro.ucc.su.oz

Albert Einstein was a Tasmanian

Glenn Geers
Department of Theoretical Physics,        Phone: +61 02 6923241
University of Sydney, 2006.
Australia