On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 10:15:40PM +0100, Graham J Lee scratched on the wall:
> On 11 Oct 2006, at 21:29, Jay A. Kreibich wrote:
>
> > lacks write permission. "-f" will overwrite such a file, assuming
> > the user has permission to grant themselves write permission.
>
> Presumably it actually will go ahead iff the user has write
> permissions in the containing directory and (the file is owned by the
> user or sticky is unset). You don't need write permissions on a file
> to delete the file, and cp could just delete the in-the-way file in
> order to create its new file.
Good point. I assume that's correct.
-j
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