kb=4096
say what!? fittingly, it's unused.
i'd suppose it was probably going to reduce the buffer size on a
wirelessly-connected ipaq
yesterday. anth_x discovered that test -w on directory always
returns false even tho the directory is writable.
test works by calling access(AWRITE) on the file which tries
a open(OWRITE) on the directory. this always fails because
you can't open directory for writing.
some rc scripts seem to
some rc scripts seem to assume that test -w should work on
directories. examples are /rc/bin/lp which tests for /tmp
being writable. another is /rc/bin/juke that tests on
/mnt/juke.
in both cases, the test returning the wrong result won't easily
be noticed. lp just mounts somthing else on
