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From: hugo@GRIGGS.DARTMOUTH.EDU (Peter Su)
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Subject: More on test -w
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Date: 28 Jun 89 19:37:10 GMT
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My last message was kind of bogus, I apologize.

The problem is that test -w always fails on directories. Seems that
the open call in SunOS 4.0 returns and error if you try to open a
directory for writing.  Thus, open may not be the way to handle the -w
switch to test.  Perhaps the fix would be to use access instead?

Pete