file.c:246: Test failed: shouldn't be able to delete a readonly file

Tom Spear (Dustin Booker, Dustin Navea) speeddymon at gmail.com
Thu Mar 23 19:54:31 CST 2006


Huw D M Davies wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 01:24:53PM -0500, Matt Finnicum wrote:
>   
>> I'm at a windows XP machine right now.
>>
>> I have no trouble deleting read-only files - I get the dialog informing me
>> it's read-only, but then it allows me to delete it.
>>
>> Is it the same on 95/98?
>>     
>
> How are you trying to delete them?  The question is whether the
> DeleteFile() function works as tested - the way to find this is to run
> that test on Windows XP.
>
> Huw.
>
>   
I usually do Shift+Delete (skip the recycle bin), but delete will work 
to move a readonly file to the recycle bin as well...

Tom



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