Ok,
I will open an issue
Davide
On Monday, June 23, 2014 3:49:12 PM UTC+1, Isaiah wrote:
>
> 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 <tomas....@gmail.com
> <javascript:>> 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 <tomas....@gmail.com> 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 <lasagn...@gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Is this a bug?
>>>>
>>>> julia> iswritable("/")
>>>> true
>>>>
>>>> (running from repl as normal user)
>>>>
>>>> Davide
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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