Re: lynx-dev /tmp failure

[Klaus Weide]

On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, T.E.Dickey wrote:
[kw:]
> > I tried to reproduce this - both the /tmp thing and the cookie thing - 
> > and could not produce any hanging. 
> 
> iirc, we're both normally on Linux -

Yes, and I'm using a 2.0.x kernel

> Linux is a bad platform for testing permissions problems since it doesn't
> behave as stringently as Unix.  (I can read from a directory which has
> "unreadable" permissions - though I've not rechecked that with the 2.2.x
> kernel yet).

I didn't meant to say the problem doesn't exist - just a data point to
say it doesn't exist everywhere, and/or that more conditions are needed
to produce it.

   Klaus