On 04Jan2010 09:16, cassiope <f...@u.washington.edu> wrote: | To Cameron: the file doesn't (yet) exist; and it has the correct full | path.
Can you show us the strace output of the failing open() call? | To "Nobody" : hey, this seems interesting. First test, invoking | seteuid() | and setegid() didn't help - but strange thing was these calls didn't | show | up in the strace, so perhaps I wasn't testing what I thought I was. If you're using the "-e trace=file" option it won't. That constrains the output to file operations to make the log easier to read. Discard the -e option to get everything. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ Rimmer: It will be happened; it shall be going to be happening; it will be was an event that could will have been taken place in the future. - Red Dwarf, _Future Echoes_ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list