From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] test -w on directory
Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 00:41:04 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1faa135a13d02ff24a95860708ac3f3f@kw.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8363bf9b7069565c35a5d9c65953e079@rei2.9hal>
> some rc scripts seem to assume that test -w should work on
> directories. examples are /rc/bin/lp which tests for /tmp
> being writable. another is /rc/bin/juke that tests on
> /mnt/juke.
in both cases, the test returning the wrong result won't easily
be noticed. lp just mounts somthing else on /tmp on failure,
and juke restarts/remounts whatever.
i'm not sure anyone has noticed.
by the way, i notice juke has this gem:
kb=4096
say what!? fittingly, it's unused.
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-25 4:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-25 4:07 cinap_lenrek
2012-05-25 4:41 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2012-05-25 8:48 ` Charles Forsyth
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