On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Brinkley Harrell wrote:
> : -----Original Message-----
> : From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> : [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf
> : Of Mark Evans
> :
> :
> : Exactly what permissions are these files?
> : Off hand I don't recall any unix version where root can write
> : to a file with no write permission at all.
>
>
> I'm afraid that's not correct. I edit read-only files (-r--r--r--) all
> of the time and save them. Vi complains if you don't use the ! to
> override the operation but will dutifully write to it when issued a
> :w!.
i think the original poster might have gotten confused with another
root permission hack. e.g. not allowing writing to a file with no
permissions at all (e.g. perm 0). this was a hack done long ago to
make lockfiles work, IIRC.
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