What’s dubious about it? Doesn’t the permission sequence shown demonstrate that
the user has write permissions?
— John
On Jun 23, 2014, at 7:17 AM, Tomas Lycken <tomas.lyc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Seems dubious to me:
>
> julia> iswritable("/")
> true
>
> shell> ls -la /
> total 142
> drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 jun 11 09:16 .
>
> shell> whoami
> tlycken
> `tlycken` is a sudoer, but if I start the REPL as `sudo julia`, `;whoami`
> returns `root`, so I don't think that's the problem.
>
> // T
>
> On Monday, June 23, 2014 4:07:12 PM UTC+2, John Myles White wrote:
>
>
>
> This seems hard to know without also seeing the output of `ls -l /`
>
> — John
>
> On Jun 23, 2014, at 7:06 AM, Davide Lasagna <lasagn...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is this a bug?
>>
>> julia> iswritable("/")
>> true
>>
>> (running from repl as normal user)
>>
>> Davide
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