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Feature #4712

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File.writable? inaccurate in windows

Added by rogerdpack (Roger Pack) almost 13 years ago. Updated over 6 years ago.

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[ruby-core:36228]

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Hello. Here's what happens (when a user doesn't have admin privileges in windows 7):

c:\Program Files (x86)\NetBeans 6.9.1>irb --simple-prompt

File.writable?('.')
=> true
File.writable?('./uninstall.exe')
=> true
File.open('./uninstall.exe', 'wb')
Errno::EACCES: Permission denied - ./uninstall.exe
from (irb):4:in initialize' from (irb):4:in open'
from (irb):4

So I think writable was returning true in error here.
Cheers!
-r

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