Thanks. This does reproduce, and I've created AR 50949 for it, although I don't know why it falls to me to be creating VM ARs. Perhaps if certain VM engineers got around to reading their mail... :-)
At 01:56 PM 12/06/2006, Martin McClure wrote:
>In VW7.4, it looks like just launching VW with an image that you own gives you write permission to the image file, even if you didn't have that previously.
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>This is on Linux, I haven't tried other platforms.
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>I keep a "clean" image around that has various extra development tools around. To keep it clean, I set the permissions of the image and changes files so I cannot write them:
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> mmcclure@lehr ~ $ cd /lehr1/users/mmcclure/apps/vw74/martin/
> mmcclure@lehr /lehr1/users/mmcclure/apps/vw74/martin $ ls -l Tools.*
> -r--r--r-- 1 mmcclure users 425110 May 17 16:00 Tools.cha
> -r--r--r-- 1 mmcclure users 16845684 Jun 12 10:43 Tools.im
>
>
>Now I launch VW:
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> export VISUALWORKS=/lehr1/users/mmcclure/apps/vw74
> $VISUALWORKS/bin/linux86/vwlinux86gui Tools.im &
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>It launches normally, but the image file is no longer write-protected!
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> mmcclure@lehr /lehr1/users/mmcclure/apps/vw74/martin $ ls -l Tools.*
> -r--r--r-- 1 mmcclure users 425110 May 17 16:00 Tools.cha
> -rw-r--r-- 1 mmcclure users 16845684 Jun 12 10:43 Tools.im
>
>This seems like a bug. I do NOT want to be able to save this image. I DO want to be able to "save as" this image under a different name.
>
>-Martin
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