Re: [Ethereal-users] File write permissions during capture

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

LEGO wrote:

> Worth to notice that (at least on Tiger but I think in all *nixes) if
> writing to a file that exists already it overwrites it but it keeps
> ownership and permissions.

Yes, that's standard UN*X behavior - open(..., O_CREAT) and creat() 
will, if the file in question already exists, just open it for writing 
(and truncate it in creat() or open() with O_TRUNC) without changing the 
permissions.