On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, François Revol wrote: > It doesn't support perms according to UNIX > (you must have write permission in a folder to delete a file inside it) > (in the geekgadgets port of emacs, there is a wrapper for file ops that > stat() the file before saving it, to check it can do it) > > [revol@patrick /boot/home]$ mkdir foobar > [revol@patrick /boot/home]$ touch foobar/lol > [revol@patrick /boot/home]$ chown 2:3 foobar > [revol@patrick /boot/home]$ chmod 700 foobar/ > [revol@patrick /boot/home]$ ls -la foobar/ > total 12 > drwx------ 1 2 3 2048 Apr 24 00:30 . > drwxr-xr-x 1 revol users 10240 Apr 24 00:30 .. > -rw-r--r-- 1 revol users 0 Apr 24 00:30 lol > [revol@patrick /boot/home]$ rm foobar/lol > [revol@patrick /boot/home]$ ls -la foobar/ > total 12 > drwx------ 1 2 3 2048 Apr 24 00:31 . > drwxr-xr-x 1 revol users 10240 Apr 24 00:30 .. > [revol@patrick /boot/home]$ It does not apply if you're root... And you *ARE* root. -Bruno