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Re: mkdir inside unwritable dir

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According to Corinna Vinschen on 7/3/2006 2:28 AM:
>> $ mkdir unreadable
>> $ chmod a-w unreadable
>> $ mkdir unreadable/oops
>>
> Any chance you're running with administrator privileges?

How'd you guess?  Yes, this was on an XP machine where I have admin
privileges.  I found it because 'make distcheck' on the m4 package was
working for me but failing for others, thanks to automake setting the
srcdir tree to read-only when testing a package tarball for VPATH
completeness.

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Life is short - so eat dessert first!

Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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