Hi,

On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 10:52:30PM +0200, Rob van Nieuwkerk wrote:

> I don't have the POSIX spec, but maybe it specifies what "read-only"
> is supposed to mean somewhere too ..

SingleUnix says:

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/basedefs/xbd_chap04.html#tag_04_07

"Marks for update, and updates themselves, are not done for files on
read-only file systems"

So we're wrong here.  Patch below fixes it for me for 2.4.

Cheers,
 Stephen