QFileInfo::isExecutable() returns true for dirs

[dimsedane]

I am using the following code to search all subdirs for executables.

@QDir dir(path);
QDirIterator iterator(dir.absolutePath(), QDirIterator::Subdirectories);
while (iterator.hasNext()) {
iterator.next();
if(!iterator.fileInfo().isDir() && iterator.fileInfo().isExecutable()) {
tests.append(new QFile(iterator.filePath()));
qDebug() << iterator.filePath();
emit locatedTest(iterator.fileName());
}
}@

That works fine, however if i remove the isDir() check, all directories, including . and .., are printed aswell. Is this a bug, or is there some reason I don't understand?

[mario]

Well, on Unix most directories are marked as executable which means that you have permission to 'change directory' in to the dir.

For example 'ls -l' give following output:
drwxr-xr-x+ ... Documents
drwx------+ ... Downloads

[dimsedane]

Then there was in fact a reason I did not understand, many thanks!

[mario]

You could try changing the permission on a directory to see if I'm right but I'm quite sure that this is the expected behavior.