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... doesn't seem to work. Several of Debian's dpkg utilities have code like the following: #! /usr/bin/perl open(Y,"> file.new") || die("open new substvars file \`file.new' failed"); chown(0, 0, "file.new") || die("chown of \`file.new' failed"); close(Y) which when executed by root in a coda file system dies as follows: chown of `file.new' failed at ./oops.pl line 4. unless file.new previously existed. I seem to recall this is expected behavior (but can't find the citation). If so, is this a restriction of Coda, a bug in Coda, or a bug in the Perl code? SteveReceived on 2000-08-03 06:13:10