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Re: is this a bug?
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Micah Cowan |
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Re: is this a bug? |
Date: |
Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:11:54 -0800 |
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Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071031) |
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Joseph Piche wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I am trying to get to the center of Ubuntu Bug #7560 and Gnome Bug
> #108307. This "bug" is over 4 years old. This relates to how gnome-vfs
> treats files moved to the trash, but I believe it boils down to how
> coreutils treats file/folder permissions. The steps to reproduce:
>
> cd
> mkdir -p test/test
> touch test/test/file
> cd test
> chmod -R a-w test
> cd
> rm -r test
>
> "rm: cannot remove `test/test/file': Permission denied"
>
> Is this a bug or is this expected behavior? If it is expected
> behavior, is it desired behavior?
Expected and desired. Why wouldn't it be? You've denied write access to
test/test, so its entry for "file" can't be removed.
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Micah J. Cowan
Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer...
http://micah.cowan.name/
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