Re^2: Checking for directory write permissions

Thanks a lot

-w option worked!!

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Re^3: Checking for directory write permissions by Tanktalus (Canon) on Jun 27, 2006 at 03:34 UTC
Warning. The -w option will give you a misleading postive result in the case where you have permissions, but the partition is mounted read-only (popular for NFS on unix). We actually just wrote a quick function to test writeability by opening a file for write access wherever we were checking, and, if successful, deleting it afterwards. It was the only foolproof way we could come up with of detecting the situation.	[reply]

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Re^3: Checking for directory write permissions
by Tanktalus (Canon) on Jun 27, 2006 at 03:34 UTC

Warning. The -w option will give you a misleading postive result in the case where you have permissions, but the partition is mounted read-only (popular for NFS on unix). We actually just wrote a quick function to test writeability by opening a file for write access wherever we were checking, and, if successful, deleting it afterwards. It was the only foolproof way we could come up with of detecting the situation.

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