John H Terpstra wrote: > Please help me to understand how that would work. If I can modify a file I > can > delete its contents - after all, that is what modification permits. If I can > modify the contents of a file by deleting it, how does that differ from not > being able to delete the file? Perhaps I am really dense here. > > Under UNIX write capability means deletion capability. How does one implement > modification without deletion in a UNIX environment?
Modifying a file and deleting it are two entirely different things. If you create or delete a file, you're modifying the file that describes the directory contents, not the contents of the directory. The most you can do, if you can't delete the file, is reduce it to zero bytes. However, you won't be able to delete the file. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
