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Re: file permissions [interesting]

On Wednesday, July 31, 2002, at 06:41 PM, Michael G. Schabert wrote:

This is normal behavior....If you do not have write permissions to the directory, you can not write, modify or delete a file (no matter its permissions) from this directory.

That is a bummer, this is not the behavior of other forms of *NIX.

Actually, that's not entirely true.

The problem stems from the definition of write perms of a file/directory, and what *exactly* happens when a program saves a current file.

Many (most) programs do not update a file. They write a new temp file, delete the old file, then move/rename the temp file to replace the original.

Interesting, openBSD does not behave this way and that is what I am most familiar with. Regardless I guess the workaround is to create a directory to store that single file in.

If you cannot write to the directory, then this will fail no matter what unix you're using.

Mike
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--will
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