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1 total messages Started by Peter Su Wed, 28 Jun 1989 19:37

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Author: Peter Su
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 1989 19:37

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My last message was kind of bogus, I apologize.

The problem is that test -w always fails on directories. Seems that
the open call in SunOS 4.0 returns and error if you try to open a
directory for writing.  Thus, open may not be the way to handle the -w
switch to test.  Perhaps the fix would be to use access instead?

Pete

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