Well, yes. We will likely keep it the way it is :-)

Andy

On Thu, 3 Sep 2015, Lukasz Janyst wrote:

> OK, I see.
>
> Just for the sake of the argument, you also cannot remove a normal file if you don't have write permissions to the directory it's in.
>
> ```
> ]==> mkdir test
> ]==> touch test/asdf
> ]==> chmod 500 test
> ]==> rm test/asdf
> rm: cannot remove ÿÿtest/asdfÿÿ: Permission denied
> ]==> echo "asdf" > test/asdf
> ]==> cat test/asdf
> asdf
> ```
>
> You'll obviously do whatever you want. I am just a consistency zealot :)
>
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