"Joseph Piche" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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?
You need write access to the containing directory when you want to remove a file. That's how permissions work in Unix since day one. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
