Subject: Re: Writing to floppy-disk after upgrade to UVM binaries.
To: NetBSD/arm32 mailing list <port-arm32@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Ib-Michael Martinsen <imm@nethotel.dk>
List: port-arm32
Date: 07/27/1998 21:51:34
Christoph Badura writes:
 > prlw1@cam.ac.uk (Patrick Welche) writes:
 > >I think you have the right idea, but got the order slightly wrong: you
 > >can't change the permissions on directory /floppy while it is
 > >mounted.
 > 
 > Excuse me?  If I have a file system mounted on /floppy I sure can change
 > the permissions on /floppy.  Now, doing that changes the permissions of
 > the root directory of the file system mounted on /floppy and not the
 > permissions on /floppy when there is no file system mounted, but that
 > is normal Unix behaviour.
 > 
 > -- 
 > Christoph Badura
 > Verlag O'Reilly

Is my observations a sign of an error in NetBSD then?

Trying to change permissions on a filesystem mounted on /floppy
gives the error:

chmod: /floppy: Is a directory

Regards
-- 
Ib-Michael Martinsen		Email at work: dtpimm@dsg.dk
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