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- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
- Date: Mon, 8 Nov 93 11:00:08 +0100
- Message-Id: <9311081000.AA25772@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
- To: mint@atari.archive.umich.edu
- In-Reply-To: <9311061708.AA24704@acae127> (bammi@Cadence.COM)
- Subject: RE: mintlib`s rename
-
- >>>>> bammi@Cadence.COM (jwahar r. bammi) writes:
-
- |>>
- |>> While porting RCS, I found that the rename function will not rename a file
- |>> if the file is write protected.
-
- |> this is indeed incorrect behavior. you can rename a write
- |> protected file. if from and to are both files, either/or can be write
- |> protected. the directory containing them must have appro permissions.
-
- Yes, i think this should be changed in MiNT. This is up to the file
- system to decide this (another reason to use MinixFS :-). Also even
- the superuser cannot delete a write protected file, which is also a
- bad thing. MiNT should be more Unix compatible in this handling (of
- cause, only possible with MinixFS :-). Btw. what does POSIX say about
- this?
-
- Andreas.
-
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- Andreas Schwab "And now for something
- schwab@ls5.informatik.uni-dortmund.de completely different"
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