On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Andreas Radke <[email protected]> wrote: > After some short tests we found strip failing for any regular user as > well inside fakeroot on files with permission 444 or 555: > > $ cp /lib/libacl.so.1 /tmp/testlib.so; chmod 444 /tmp/testlib.so; > /usr/bin/strip /tmp/testlib.so > /usr/bin/strip: unable to copy file '/tmp/testlib.so'; reason: Permission > denied > > Dan could confirm this on his system.
That is expected. Both 444 and 555 are missing write permissions, and strip re-writes the file.
