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Re: mkdir inside unwritable dir
On Jul 3 06:14, Eric Blake wrote:
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> According to Corinna Vinschen on 7/3/2006 2:28 AM:
> >> $ mkdir unreadable
> >> $ chmod a-w unreadable
> >> $ mkdir unreadable/oops
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> > Any chance you're running with administrator privileges?
>
> How'd you guess? Yes, this was on an XP machine where I have admin
> privileges. I found it because 'make distcheck' on the m4 package was
> working for me but failing for others, thanks to automake setting the
> srcdir tree to read-only when testing a package tarball for VPATH
> completeness.
It works as expected if you're working under a non-privileged account.
However, all accounts having the SE_RESTORE_NAME privilege, can create
a directory within a non-writable directory, same as a root user on
Linux.
Corinna
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