On Saturday 11 June 2005 06:14 am, Piet van Oostrum wrote: > >>>>> Terry Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (TH) wrote: > >TH> It looks to me like Python just deleted a read-only file owned by > >TH> root in order to replace it with a new pyc file. Can somebody > >TH> explain that to me?! Isn't that supposed to be impossible? > > If the directory is writable, you can delete a file and write a new one > with the same name. The permissions of the file itself are of no importance > in this case.
Yeah, I guess that must be so. I wonder why I never noticed it, though. -- Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com ) Anansi Spaceworks http://www.anansispaceworks.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
