Re: [Dev-luatex] file permissions

2011-02-06 Thread Reinhard Kotucha
On 6 February 2011 Hans Hagen wrote: > On 6-2-2011 3:56, Reinhard Kotucha wrote: > > > $ whoami > > reinhard > > $ ls -l /etc/passwd > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2269 Dec 19 14:57 /etc/passwd > > > > Your test suggests that the file is writable, but this is only true > > for root, not for

Re: [Dev-luatex] file permissions

2011-02-06 Thread Hans Hagen
On 6-2-2011 3:56, Reinhard Kotucha wrote: $ whoami reinhard $ ls -l /etc/passwd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2269 Dec 19 14:57 /etc/passwd Your test suggests that the file is writable, but this is only true for root, not for the user who is running the script. You actually have to determine whether

Re: [Dev-luatex] file permissions

2011-02-06 Thread Reinhard Kotucha
On 6 February 2011 Hans Hagen wrote: > On 5-2-2011 9:11, Reinhard Kotucha wrote: > > > In order to test whether a file is readable I currently open this > > file in a protected call. This is also possible for directories > > when I run lfs.dir() inside pcall(). It's not very elegant, and

Re: [Dev-luatex] file permissions

2011-02-06 Thread Hans Hagen
On 5-2-2011 9:11, Reinhard Kotucha wrote: In order to test whether a file is readable I currently open this file in a protected call. This is also possible for directories when I run lfs.dir() inside pcall(). It's not very elegant, and I still have no idea how to test whether a file is writabl

Re: [Dev-luatex] file permissions

2011-02-06 Thread Taco Hoekwater
On 02/05/2011 09:11 PM, Reinhard Kotucha wrote: Hence, I think that a separate function lfs.access() makes more sense. WDYT? Sounds fine, I've put it on my todo list for 0.70 Best wishes, Taco ___ dev-luatex mailing list dev-luatex@ntg.nl http://ww