The problem here is that the underlying ios implementation is only valid
for files. Please open an issue.
julia> iswritable("/foo")
false
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 10:46 AM, Tomas Lycken <[email protected]>
wrote:
> No, only that the *owner* has write permissions. The owner is `root`, but
> the current user is `tlycken`, who *doesn't* have write permissions.
>
> // T
>
>
> On Monday, June 23, 2014 4:19:05 PM UTC+2, John Myles White wrote:
>
>> What’s dubious about it? Doesn’t the permission sequence shown
>> demonstrate that the user has write permissions?
>>
>> — John
>>
>> On Jun 23, 2014, at 7:17 AM, Tomas Lycken <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Seems dubious to me:
>>
>> julia> iswritable("/")
>> true
>>
>> shell> ls -la /
>> total 142
>> drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 jun 11 09:16 .
>> shell> whoami
>> tlycken
>>
>> `tlycken` is a sudoer, but if I start the REPL as `sudo julia`, `;whoami`
>> returns `root`, so I don't think that's the problem.
>>
>> // T
>>
>> On Monday, June 23, 2014 4:07:12 PM UTC+2, John Myles White wrote:
>>
>>
>> This seems hard to know without also seeing the output of `ls -l /`
>>>
>>> — John
>>>
>>> On Jun 23, 2014, at 7:06 AM, Davide Lasagna <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Is this a bug?
>>>
>>> julia> iswritable("/")
>>> true
>>>
>>> (running from repl as normal user)
>>>
>>> Davide
>>>
>>>
>>>
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