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- From: itschere@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de
- Subject: Re: Deleting owned files...
- Date: Mon, 16 May 94 16:10:40 MET DST
- In-Reply-To: <9405160858.AA29231@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>; from "Andreas Schwab" at May 16, 94 10:58:35 am
-
- Hellooo...
-
- > |> lancelot# ll !$
- > |> -r--r--r-- 1 269 15 17976 May 11 19:46 uucp-1.03/COPYING
- > |> lancelot# tar xzvf uucp-1.03.tar.gz uucp-1.03/COPYING
- > |> uucp-1.03/COPYING
- > |> tar: Could not create file uucp-1.03/COPYING : access denied.
- >
- > MiNT does not allow root to open a readonly file for writing. This
- > should really be changed, IMHO.
-
- Hmmm, wrong. MiNT (or the denyaccess() routine) does very well allow root
- to open a readonly file for writing. The problem is that you must ignore the
- reported filemode and just try it. Most programs seems to self-check the
- file modes before trying to open the file, and therefore fail. I've seen
- some GNU tools and editors doing this.
-
- How do editors under UN*X handle this? If you patch the getxattr() stuff to
- respect this, directoy listings won't report the correct modes any more, so
- what shall one do...?
-
- > IMHO, the biggest problem of MiNT is its compatibility with TOS.
-
- :-)
-
- ciao,
- TeSche
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