Hi Michael,
my understanding of RAW files is that you can never overwrite your
RAW files so they do not need read only permissions.
On Mon, 12 Apr 2021 at 14:03, Michael Staats <michael.sta...@gmx.de> wrote:
> On 11/04/2021 18:45, paka wrote:
>
> > and the action is quite expected
> > read-only files may be copied but not removed or executed.
> > that is the reason for "read-only"
>
> What? read-only means: You are allowed to read the file, but not to
> write to it. Whether you can "move" or "remove" it (i.e. unlink() it,
> i.e. remove an entry from the directory), is determined by the
> permissions on the directory, not the file. This is how it was desinged
> by the gods (Thompson, Ritchie).
>
> By the way: Actually, you cannot "delete" or "remove" a file in Unix,
> it's impossible from user land. The only thing you can do is unlink it,
> i.e. remove entries from a directory, and once the link count is zero
> (which may or may not be the case after one "rm"), the OS will delete
> the file for you.
>
> (MS-DOS, and it's newer versions under the name of Windows "work"
> differently, for loose definitions of "work". And it's inconsistent, as
> we see...).
>
> > why are you giving read-only permissions to the files?
>
> Maybe because every second post on this list tells you to NOT touch the
> raw files?
>
> Best regards,
> Michael
>
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