Bug#321076: With filesystem ACLS, write access to a folder is not recognized

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

Am Mittwoch, den 03.08.2005, 12:04 +0200 schrieb Rainer Schöpf:
> I have mail folders with filesystem ACLs to grant write access to
> specific users.
> 
> Mail::Box::File ignores this, claiming the folder in question is
> readonly. It seems that it only uses "-w" to determine the access rights,
> which gives the wrong naswer if ACLs are used.

Isn't that then a bug in the "-w" functionality of perl, or is it
explicitly said to ignore ACLs? And could you give us a hint how the
module _should_ check for writability?

Greetings,
Joachim
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