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Re: Gforth Android file access trouble

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On Sat, 30 May 2026 10:57:36 +0900
David Meyer <papa@sdf.org> wrote:

> I'm running the Gforth 0.7.9_20251001 app on Android 16 smartphone.
> 
> A few months ago, Bernd helped me here to get around Android's golden
> caging by creating a directory under /storage/emulated/0/Download for
> copying files in and out of the Gforth app, and adding that directory
> to fpath.
> 
> That worked well at that time, but yesterday I copied a new file into
> that shared directory (/storage/emulated/0/Download/gforth on my
> phone) and Gforth cannot find the file with either include or 'sh
> ls', even though files I copied into the directory months ago still
> show up as expected.
> 
> Permissions on all the files in the directory, old and new, is 660
> (read+wrote for owner and group). I tried changing perms to 666 (add
> world read+write), but it had no effect, and permissions were reset to
> 660 after I restarted the phone.
> 
> Any idea what's going on with the new file?
> 

Dying SD-cards silently go read-only all by themselves. Possibly all
types of flash memory do this too. Maybe that's it?

Android/Linux, I seem to remember, silently re-mounts the disk
read-only.

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Martin Nicholas.

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Gforth Android file access trouble David Meyer <papa@sdf.org> - 2026-05-30 10:57 +0900
  Re: Gforth Android file access trouble Martin Nicholas <reply-2026@mgn.org.uk> - 2026-05-30 09:00 +0100
    Re: Gforth Android file access trouble Daniel Cerqueira <dan.list@lispclub.com> - 2026-05-30 13:51 +0100
  Re: Gforth Android file access trouble David Meyer <papa@sdf.org> - 2026-05-31 08:52 +0900
  Re: Gforth Android file access trouble Bernd Paysan <bernd@net2o.de> - 2026-05-31 07:45 +0000
    Re: Gforth Android file access trouble Bernd Paysan <bernd@net2o.de> - 2026-05-31 19:08 +0000

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