[patch] rc.d/tmp (silly mkdir usage)

[Joerg Sonnenberger]

On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 02:06:32PM +0300, Vasil Dimov wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 12:52:34PM +0200, Dario Freni wrote:
> > Vasil Dimov wrote:
> > > Even we can use
> > > if [ -d /tmp -a -w /tmp ] ; then
> > > or (which is equivalent)
> > > if [ -d /tmp ] && [ -w /tmp ] ; then
> > > and save external commands (mkdir) execution and directory
> > > creation/deletion at all.
> > 
> > You can't use test -w here. The script is checking if there is a
> > read-only filesystem. -w checks only the file flags (according to the
> > man page, at least).
> > 
> That's correct, -w cannot be used to check read-only filesystem.

Actually, you can. That's not portable behaviour though.

Joerg