Unable to modfiy an existing file

Unable to modfiy an existing file

[Saravanan Manickanainar Dakshinamoorthy]

Hi,

       Machine : SunOS 5.8 sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-100
      emacs version : 21.3

       I am not able to modify an existing file which has write 
permission, but the
directory under which the file present has only read and execute permission.
I can modify that with vi editor.

       eg
            foo-dir <directory>   permisssion   r-xr-xr-x
                 |
                 foo <file>    permission rw-rw-rw-

Thanks,
saravanan

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Re: Unable to modfiy an existing file

[Stefan Monnier]

>        I am not able to modify an existing file which has write
> permission, but the directory under which the file present has only read
> and execute permission.  I can modify that with vi editor.

What have you tried to do, and what happened?
Did you get an error message?  If so can you show it to us?
Better yet, select Options -> Enter Debugger on Error, reproduce the
error, and send us the resulting backtrace (assuming you get one).


        Stefan