error codes

[Mel]

On Wednesday 07 May 2008 21:57:29 Richard Bown wrote:

> Thanks, now I'm totally confused, how can a package fail to load due to
> permissions, when its being downloaded by the system
> instigated by root.

Read only filesystems is one. File flags is another (see chflags(2)).
EPERM != EACCESS

EPERM relates to /operations/ that are not permitted.
EACCESS relates to access being denied to /resources/ (files/directories but 
also sockets).

-- 
Mel