[Info-vax] Default protection question

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 11/6/2010 10:04 AM, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
> On 2010-11-06 14:42, Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote:
>
>> In article<ib3j36$14o$1 at ns.felk.cvut.cz>, smithfarm
>> <presnypreklad at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> while its ACL is taken from the parent directory.
>>
>> If there is one.
>
> There is always a "parent directory"... :-)

Really?   What is the "parent" of [000000]?