site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com User-agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i 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:

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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 -- Jay A. Kreibich | CommTech, Emrg Net Tech Svcs jak@uiuc.edu | Campus IT & Edu Svcs <http://www.uiuc.edu/~jak> | University of Illinois at U/C _______________________________________________ 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... This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com