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From: greg@mobius.Viewlogic.COM (Gregory Larkin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Unable to remove directories in V1.5
Message-ID: <1991Mar6.105044@mobius.Viewlogic.COM>
Date: 6 Mar 91 15:50:44 GMT
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Reply-To: greg@mobius.Viewlogic.COM (Gregory Larkin)
Organization: Viewlogic Systems, Inc., Marlboro, MA
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Hi all,

I've got a fairly bizarre problem with V1.5: I cannot remove any 
directory that I create! This can be duplicated if I am user "root"
or user "ast".  "root" cannot remove directories with 777 protection!
My umask for "root" is 0000.  The umask for "ast" is "0022".

What's going on here?

PS:  If I am "ast" and create a directory, then "su" to root, "root"
     cannot remove a 777 directory owned by "ast"!!  I've tried rmdir
     and "rm -rf".

Please help!

Thanks,
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Greg Larkin (ASIC Engineer)
Viewlogic Systems, Inc. (The CAE Company)
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