how can nnn read dirs outside the home directory

[muezabdalla]

I have been using opendir() in a program to read the files/dirs in a directory but when I try to open a directory outside the home directory(e.g the root directory /) I get an error because the normal user does not have permissions to open that directory. but I realized that nnn can read file in the root directory without using sudo. so my question is how does it do that?

I tried to search on the web and even reading the nnn.c file but did not find any solutions.

[darukutsu]

You sure you have right permissions? I just tried opendir() and it lists contents of / normally.

nnn/src/nnn.c

Line 5905 in 5045f80

static int dentfill(char *path, struct entry **ppdents)

here's function that does listing.

[muezabdalla]

thank you.
I noticed that I was trying to open /home/lost+found which need root permission even in nnn