On 2017-05-03, Christian Brabandt wrote: > Hi Niels! > > On Mi, 03 Mai 2017, Niels Kobschätzki wrote: > > > I found today the following on a Debian 8.7 (vim 7.4.576) and FreeBSD 11 > > (8.0.579): I am in my home-dir "user" and there I create a file with the > > following permissions: root:user 640 > > > > When I open the file as "user", vim tells me that the file is read-only. > > I edit it, and close it with :x! > > vim writes the file and sets the permissions to: > > user:user 640 > > > > I didn't use sudo or anything. When I tried to do a chown or chmod on > > this file to set the permissions to user:user from root:user it failed > > because "user" didn't have the permissions. > > > > What is happening here? > > The user has write permissions on the directory, therefore he can > happily delete the file owned by root and create a new file. And that is > what Vim is doing.
If that was true, I would expect the inode number of the file to be different after Vim had edited it, but that is not what I observe. The inode number is unchanged. I created a file with only read permissions and successfully edited it with Vim. I repeated the experiment in a directory with only read and execute permissions and was able to edit that file as well. Regards, Gary -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
