At 05:37 PM 2/5/2003 +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 11:29:40AM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: >> what good does it do to remove DELETE if unlink() does a >> chmod(777) anyway, which puts it back? > >$ touch foo >$ rm foo >$ touch foo >$ chmod u-w foo >$ rm foo >rm: remove write-protected file `foo'? y
Yes, but that's the rm command being nice and it is not related to the DELETE access right. I am talking about the unlink() function, it plows right through. Pierre