From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <20030303200021.17490.qmail@mail.dirac.net> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] union directories From: Keith Nash Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 20:00:21 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 772d9c2c-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > Ls tells the truth! I see no value in causing it to lie. It tells the truth and nothing but the truth, but does it tell the whole truth? I might believe from running ls -ld on a directory that I can create a new file in it; but I can't, if the directory is a union mount, and none of the elements was bound with -c. Is there any way to test the writability of a directory, other than by attempting to create a file there, or by combining ls -ld with an examination of the output of ns? Keith.