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Date:      Wed, 7 May 2008 22:19:00 +0200
From:      Mel <fbsd.multimedia@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
To:        freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: error codes
Message-ID:  <200805072219.01644.fbsd.multimedia@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
In-Reply-To: <20080507205729.44f5feb8@gb7tf>
References:  <20080507180853.00a23aa1@gb7tf> <482203CB.1010809@smo.de> <20080507205729.44f5feb8@gb7tf>

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On Wednesday 07 May 2008 21:57:29 Richard Bown wrote:

> Thanks, now I'm totally confused, how can a package fail to load due to
> permissions, when its being downloaded by the system
> instigated by root.

Read only filesystems is one. File flags is another (see chflags(2)).
EPERM != EACCESS

EPERM relates to /operations/ that are not permitted.
EACCESS relates to access being denied to /resources/ (files/directories but 
also sockets).

-- 
Mel



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