- From: Donny Viszneki <smirk@thebuicksix.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 22:09:18 -0500
- To: olivier Thereaux <ot@w3.org>
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
On Mar 17, 2005, at 4:48 AM, olivier Thereaux wrote: > Hi Donny, > > On Mar 17, 2005, at 15:40, Donny Viszneki wrote: >> Who remembers this one? >> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-validator/2005Jan/0036.html >> ... >> On Mac OS X, IO::File->new_tmpfile() tries to create a file in /tmp. >> /tmp is owned by the administrator, and grouped under staff. The >> permissions set /tmp only writable to the owner. > > This is odd. On unix and unix-like systems, such as Mac OS X, the /tmp > directory is specifically made to be writable by all users, so that > the programs they run can write temporary data. Yeah, Mac OS X has really got me into a "don't ask" mode of computing. I'm never very satisfied with the way they do things a lot of the time. I have no idea why /tmp isn't world-writable, or why I've never had a problem with it... well now that I think about it, I am the owner, that might explain it. And technically, I am having a problem with the validator... > You may want to use OS X's "disk utility" to "check (and repair) > permissions". Ok, I ran that. As to be expected, it didn't like any of the permissions of anything installed by Hewlett Packard. Unfortunately it didn't seem to see anything wrong with my /tmp. Thanks for the advice.
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