From: Chad Perrin <code@...>
Date: 2012-07-28T06:05:14+09:00
Subject: Re: rubyzip gem overwrites write-protected root-owned file

On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 07:16:16AM +0900, Wybo Dekker wrote:
> 
> I don't agree.
> First, look at http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/filepermissions.html,
> which says:
> Write permission. On a regular file, this means you can modify the file,
> aka write new data to the file. In the case of a directory, the write
> permission means you can add, remove, and rename files in the directory.
> This means that if a file has the write permission bit, you are allowed
> to modify the file's contents, but you're allowed to rename or delete
> the file only if the permissions of the file's directory allow you to do so.

You're right, of course.  I completely failed to think about directory
permissions.  That's my mistake; sorry about that.

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