Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gatech!seismo!brl-tgr!gwyn From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: 4.2bsd Oddity (BUG?) Message-ID: <729@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Mon, 16-Dec-85 11:21:12 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.729 Posted: Mon Dec 16 11:21:12 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 17-Dec-85 07:46:35 EST References: <721@brl-tgr.ARPA> Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 5 The owner of the parent directory should be able to "mv" the subdirectory elsewhere (within the same file system) then "rm" his original directory. Presumably he would mail a note to the owner of the write-protected directory that he moved..