Re: Create in a root directory (Linux)

[Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>]

comicfanzine@gmail.com writes:

> Hi ,
> I want to create a file in a root directory : "/"
> And of course i am root . How can i proceed ? i always get the error :
> "permission denied" .
>
> Here is the code that i tried :
>
> [code]WITH Ada.Text_IO ;  USE Ada.Text_IO ; 
>
> PROCEDURE TestFichier IS
>
>    MonFichier : File_type ; 
>    
> BEGIN 
>    Create( MonFichier,Name => " /clone.adb");
>    close(MonFichier);
> END TestFichier ;

What OS? which compiler?

I tried this on OS X and got Name_Error because of that extra space in
the name.

Fixed that; all OK now. So I don't know. (I do know that creating files
in your root directory is likely to be a Bad Idea).