Re: lynx-dev /tmp failure

[T.E.Dickey]

> 
> 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. 

yes (I was just pointing out something that wasn't immediately obvious).

  
>    Klaus 
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