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Re: fopen() of a read-only file for writing?

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From	"Joe Shead" <Joe@SheadProgramming.com>
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Ok, thanks.

I'll test that soon, with a less powerful user, but it's too late right now.

Joseph Shead

"Alan Curry" <pacman@kosh.dhis.org> wrote in message
news:jmiu3v$is7$1@speranza.aioe.org...
> In article <s5KdnY85luiJChHSnZ2dnUVZ_uGdnZ2d@earthlink.com>,
> Joe Shead <Joe@SheadProgramming.com> wrote:
> >
> >Hi,
> >
> >I have a file that has no write permissions on it, called readonly.txt.
> >I am logged on as root.
>
> Read and write permissions mean nothing to root.
>
> Execute permission does matter though. I suspect that's a holdover from
the
> time when it was common for $PATH to contain "." so there was more
potential
> to accidentally execute things.
>
> -- 
> Alan Curry

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fopen() of a read-only file for writing? "Joe Shead" <Joe@SheadProgramming.com> - 2012-04-16 17:03 -0600
  Re: fopen() of a read-only file for writing? pacman@kosh.dhis.org (Alan Curry) - 2012-04-17 05:12 +0000
    Re: fopen() of a read-only file for writing? "Joe Shead" <Joe@SheadProgramming.com> - 2012-04-17 01:36 -0600
    Re: fopen() of a read-only file for writing? "Joe Shead" <Joe@SheadProgramming.com> - 2012-04-18 22:40 -0600
      Re: fopen() of a read-only file for writing? Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2012-04-19 08:57 +0100
      Re: fopen() of a read-only file for writing? Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2012-04-19 14:18 +0100
      Re: fopen() of a read-only file for writing? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2012-04-19 14:16 +0000
      Re: fopen() of a read-only file for writing? "Joe Shead" <Joe@SheadProgramming.com> - 2012-04-20 19:10 -0600
        Re: fopen() of a read-only file for writing? Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2012-04-21 10:20 +0100
          Re: fopen() of a read-only file for writing? "Joe Shead" <Joe@SheadProgramming.com> - 2012-04-22 00:07 -0600
          Re: fopen() of a read-only file for writing? "Joe Shead" <Joe@SheadProgramming.com> - 2012-04-23 15:24 -0600

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