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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] union directories
Date: Mon,  3 Mar 2003 15:05:51 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5f85e2894cba0a463e15fda5d6490297@plan9.bell-labs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030303200021.17490.qmail@mail.dirac.net>

> 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?

No.

I'm not even sure how ls -ld would help you.
ns would give you a first approximation.



  reply	other threads:[~2003-03-03 20:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-03 20:00 Keith Nash
2003-03-03 20:05 ` Russ Cox [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-03-03 20:45 Keith Nash
2003-03-03 20:51 ` Russ Cox
2003-03-03 18:58 rog
2003-03-03 23:17 ` anyrhine
2003-03-03 13:18 rog
2003-03-03 17:40 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2003-03-03 18:05   ` Russ Cox
2003-03-03 18:09     ` Ronald G. Minnich
2003-03-03 18:16       ` Russ Cox
2003-02-28 18:52 Joel Salomon
2003-02-28 18:56 ` Russ Cox
2003-02-28 21:16   ` Jack Johnson
2003-02-28 22:58   ` Geoff Collyer
2003-02-28 23:19     ` Jack Johnson
2003-02-28 23:59       ` Geoff Collyer
2003-02-15 19:37 [9fans] presentation preparation Scott Schwartz
2003-02-15 19:48 ` andrey mirtchovski
2003-02-27  9:35   ` Ralph Corderoy
2003-02-28 18:44     ` [9fans] union directories Jack Johnson
2003-02-28 18:53       ` Russ Cox
2003-03-04  9:44       ` Adrian Tritschler
2001-03-23 13:30 G. David Butler
2001-03-23 13:08 rog
2001-03-26  8:44 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-03-22  3:28 rob pike
2001-03-23 10:06 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-03-22  2:57 Gorka Guardiola Muzquiz
2001-03-22  2:46 Gorka Guardiola Muzquiz
2001-03-22  2:42 Gorka Guardiola Muzquiz
2001-03-22  2:37 Russ Cox
2001-03-22  2:02 Russ Cox
2001-03-22  1:56 Gorka Guardiola Muzquiz

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