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.
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