Hello. I'm using wget 1.20.3 on a Gentoo Linux system.
I obtain a confusing "Success" error message from wget when trying to download any file into a write-protected directory. Steps to reproduce: 1) mkdir test 2) chmod -w test 3) cd test 4) wget --no-config https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/plain/sys-apps/lm-sensors/lm-sensors-3.6.0.ebuild This is the output of the last command: > --2019-11-03 14:53:34-- > https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/plain/sys-apps/lm-sensors/lm-sensors-3.6.0.ebuild > Resolving gitweb.gentoo.org... 108.28.123.238 > Connecting to gitweb.gentoo.org|108.28.123.238|:443... connected. > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK > Length: 6445 (6.3K) [text/plain] > lm-sensors-3.6.0.ebuild: Permission denied > > Cannot write to ‘lm-sensors-3.6.0.ebuild’ (Success). Exit status is 3 (File I/O error). As far as I know you can try replacing the Gentoo ebuild I used with any other file from the internet: the error message will be the same. Why does wget use the word "success" when it's clearly a failure instead? Is this a bug? -- https://fturco.net/
