Carsten Kunze <carsten.kunze%arcor.de@localhost> writes: > What is strange is that cp(1) does not work when the target file is > not present (in a 700 dir). It does only work if a writeable file is > present. That does not sound so odd to me. cp likely has different code paths to open an existing file for writing vs a new file. If the directory is 755, or some other mode, did this not happen?
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