Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 13:15:35 +0200 From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [patch] rc.d/tmp (silly mkdir usage) Message-ID: <20050802111535.GA2468@britannica.bec.de> In-Reply-To: <20050802110632.GB85997@sinanica.bg.datamax> References: <51934.68.95.232.238.1122957425.squirrel@68.95.232.238> <20050802062937.GA31485@sinanica.bg.datamax> <42EF5072.30808@freesbie.org> <20050802110632.GB85997@sinanica.bg.datamax>
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On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 02:06:32PM +0300, Vasil Dimov wrote: > On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 12:52:34PM +0200, Dario Freni wrote: > > Vasil Dimov wrote: > > > Even we can use > > > if [ -d /tmp -a -w /tmp ] ; then > > > or (which is equivalent) > > > if [ -d /tmp ] && [ -w /tmp ] ; then > > > and save external commands (mkdir) execution and directory > > > creation/deletion at all. > > > > You can't use test -w here. The script is checking if there is a > > read-only filesystem. -w checks only the file flags (according to the > > man page, at least). > > > That's correct, -w cannot be used to check read-only filesystem. Actually, you can. That's not portable behaviour though. Joerg
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