[p4] Mac/ppc tmp file foobar'ing

[R. Tyler Ballance]

On Jan 24, 2007, at 2:24 PM, Dave Lewis wrote:

> flippant guess, p4d running as wrong user?
>
> On 1/24/07, R. Tyler Ballance <tyler at bleepsoft.com> wrote:
>> I've noticed this on two Powerbooks we use on our development team.
>>
>> The following is from a `p4 resolve -a`:
>>
>> open for write: /Software/Perforce/depot/PROJECT/source/Interface/
>> files_received/tmp.8575.35: Permission denied
>>
>> When we run `find . -name "tmp*"` in the directory, there aren't any
>> files that show up....

We found the issue, some external application had foobar'ed this  
developer's permissions in his root perforce directory (/Software/ 
Perforce). We're checking it out to make sure it wasn't P4V, because  
Xcode and P4V are the only apps that really access the data therein.


Cheers

R. Tyler Ballance: Lead Mac Developer at bleep. software
contact: tyler at bleepsoft.com | jabber: tyler at jabber.geekisp.com