John Thompson wrote:
On 2010-01-08, Barbara Duprey <[email protected]> wrote:
Well, it's far from elegant -- but you could copy the file to another
directory, make your changes, and copy back (losing the lock protection,
though, unless the working location is shared by everybody who edits the
file). Hope somebody comes up with a better solution, though.
No; if the OP doesn't have "write" access to the dirtectory in question
any attempt to copy the modified file into that directory will fail.
The kind of access rights involved here, where a user has write privs
for a file but not for its directory, were not familiar to me
(introduced "since my time" I guess). Apparently it doesn't allow a user
with such privileges to overwrite a file, but just to edit it in place.
I've been straightened out on this point -- continuing education!
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