This has been beaten to death, and is IMHO not indicative of a coreutils problem, so I've marked this issue as "done". If anyone wants to add a TODO item or something like that, please be precise and reopen the issue.
- bug#12366: [gnu-prog-discuss] Writing unwritable files Paul Eggert
- bug#12366: [gnu-prog-discuss] Writing unwritable fil... Paolo Bonzini
- bug#12366: [gnu-prog-discuss] Writing unwritable... Bob Proulx
- bug#12366: [gnu-prog-discuss] Writing unwrit... Paul Eggert
- bug#12366: [gnu-prog-discuss] Writing un... Bernhard Voelker
- bug#12366: [gnu-prog-discuss] Writing un... Paul Eggert
- bug#12366: [gnu-prog-discuss] bug#12366:... John Darrington
- bug#12366: [gnu-prog-discuss] bug#12366:... Paolo Bonzini
- bug#12366: [gnu-prog-discuss] bug#12366:... Paul Eggert
- bug#12366: [gnu-prog-discuss] bug#12366:... Bob Proulx
- bug#12366: [gnu-prog-discuss] bug#12366:... Jim Meyering
- bug#12366: [gnu-prog-discuss] bug#12366: Writing unwrita... Bob Friesenhahn
- bug#12366: [gnu-prog-discuss] bug#12366: Writing un... Paolo Bonzini