Re: pkg/24255 (pkg_delete removes meta data even if deinstall fails)

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 09:50:04AM +0000, Matthew Mondor wrote:
>  I doubt it, but could access(2) reliably be used as a first pass before
>  the unlink(2)/rmdir(2) phase to fail before performing any
>  non-reversible operation?

AFAIK, no. Many file systems don't check for read-only mounts etc. in
this case.

Frankly, I consider this a clear "won't fix".

Joerg