RE: [Lynx-dev] 2.8.7dev.5 and /bin/znew

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Virden, Larry W. wrote:

> My first thought would be that /bin or /bin/znew have permissions that prevent 
> the userid running lynx from removing it...

Actually my first thought was that /bin/znew was some apparently random
name.  However - perhaps the problem is some pathname-parsing problem
related to its being up near "/".  (I'm not inclined to remove /bin/znew,
but can test on /tmp ;-)

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> To: Frédéric L. W. Meunier
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> On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote:
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> > When I use 'r' to remove a file, I sometimes get:
> >
> > "Alert!: Probable failure to remove /bin/znew due to system error!"
> >
> > /bin/znew exists. And why does it says it failed to remove it ?
> >
> > It worked fine with 2.8.7dev.4.
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> I don't know - a quick review of the changes doesn't show me anywhere I'd 
> expect to hit this (the closest being the changes for IsOurFile, or the POSIX 
> checks in a couple other places...)
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