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Re: Checking write permission from a perl script



> From:  Dustin Sallings <dustin@spy.net>
> Date:  Thu, 4 May 2000 12:41:31 -0700 (PDT)
>
> On Thu, 4 May 2000, Chris Garrigues wrote:
> 
> # Is there any way a perl script can check to see if I have write
> # permission to an entry in the server database besides trying to write to
> # it? 
> 
> 	I'm having a hard time imagining where that would be useful.  What
> are you trying to do?

I don't want to offer to my user the opportunity to change things that can't 
be changed.

Chris

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