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On 07/28/2010 01:20 PM, Andrey Vul wrote:
> Creating files in /tmp, /etc, /lib32, and /var return ENOENT (touch
> /tmp/foo =>  strerror(ENOENT)).
> However, this is done as root and the dirs are marked 755 root:root.

Is the sticky bit set on /tmp?

drwxrwxrwt  26 root root 36864 2010-07-29 04:15 tmp/
          ^