site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com 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. Jay, Cheers, -- M. Uli Kusterer http://www.zathras.de _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... Am 11.10.2006 um 23:18 schrieb Jay A. Kreibich: On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 10:15:40PM +0100, Graham J Lee scratched on the wall: Good point. I assume that's correct. no need to assume. My prof pretty much said the same way back in Sysadmin class :-) This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com