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- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
- Date: Tue, 17 May 94 11:36:23 +0200
- Message-Id: <9405170936.AA04430@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
- To: schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
- In-Reply-To: <9405170854.AA04382@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> (message from Andreas Schwab on Tue, 17 May 94 10:54:38 +0200)
- Subject: Re: Deleting owned files...
-
- I wrote:
-
- |> itschere@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE writes:
-
- |> |> Hmmm, wrong. MiNT (or the denyaccess() routine) does very well allow root
- |> |> to open a readonly file for writing.
-
- |> Yes, i stand corrected.
-
- Sigh, confused again. I have just read Evan's mail who showed the
- place where MiNT denies write access for the super user. I should
- better think before posting :-(.
-
- |> Under SunOS you get the same error when tar tries to extract readonly
- |> file which exists already.
-
- Unfortuately I cannot check how root access is handled :-)
-
- Andreas.
-