Julia returns a writable root folder when it is run as normal user.
Probably just a bug?
julia> iswritable("/")
true
shell> touch /pippo
touch: cannot touch '/pippo': Permission denied
shell> ls -l /
No supported Python (2.4 / 2.6 / 2.7) version available.
total 52
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Jun 4 15:39 bin -> usr/bin
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 13 11:06 boot
drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 3260 Jun 20 11:34 dev
drwxr-xr-x 89 root root 4096 Jun 18 16:36 etc
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 May 27 10:11 home
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Jun 4 15:39 lib -> usr/lib
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Jun 4 15:39 lib64 -> usr/lib
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Feb 21 2013 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 11 2013 mnt
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 May 27 16:58 opt
dr-xr-xr-x 179 root root 0 Jun 19 17:23 proc
drwxr-x--- 16 root root 4096 May 27 10:05 root
drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 640 Jun 23 10:30 run
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Jun 4 15:39 sbin -> usr/bin
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Mar 14 2013 srv
dr-xr-xr-x 13 root root 0 Jun 23 16:11 sys
drwxrwxrwt 16 root root 420 Jun 23 15:51 tmp
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Jun 13 11:05 usr
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Jun 13 11:05 var
On Monday, June 23, 2014 3:17:35 PM UTC+1, Tomas Lycken 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
>>
>>
>>
>
