From: Anurag Priyam <anurag08priyam@...>
Date: 2011-02-08T22:32:06+09:00
Subject: Re: "permission denied" happening too often

> I've got Ruby scripts that have been working fine for years now. But,
> every now and then, one of my scripts errors out with a "permission
> denied" error. This is very frustrating. Usually, it involves moving a
> file to either a sister directory or a subdirectory. And, like I said,
> 99% of the time it works fine. Has anyone else experienced this? It kind
> of scares me because it's only been happening for me with Ruby. It
> didn't use to happen with Perl, and, believe, I don't want to go back to
> Perl.

Can you post your code? Not sure, but trying to move '.' or '..' on a
Unix system might cause this problem. Also, did you verify that you
have right permissions on the files, and directories?

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Anurag Priyam
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