Re: Deleting owned files...

[Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>]

I wrote:

|> itschere@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE writes:

|> |>  Hmmm, wrong. MiNT (or the denyaccess() routine) does very well allow root
|> |> to open a readonly file for writing. 

|> Yes, i stand corrected.

Sigh, confused again.  I have just read Evan's mail who showed the
place where MiNT denies write access for the super user.  I should
better think before posting :-(.

|> Under SunOS you get the same error when tar tries to extract readonly
|> file which exists already.

Unfortuately I cannot check how root access is handled :-)

Andreas.