On Sun, 2 Jun 1996, Peter Seebach wrote:

> Has anyone seen a situation where you are denied permission to remove or
> write to a file which you own and have write privs for, in a directory you
> own and have write and execute privs for?

It's quite possibly marked immutable or something like that; see
chflags(1) for more details.

cjs

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