strip is failing on files with permission 444/555
 

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Andreas Radke <a.radke@arcor.de> wrote:
> After some short tests we found strip failing for any regular user as
> well inside fakeroot on files with permission 444 or 555:
>
> $ cp /lib/libacl.so.1 /tmp/testlib.so; chmod 444 /tmp/testlib.so; /usr/bin/strip /tmp/testlib.so
> /usr/bin/strip: unable to copy file '/tmp/testlib.so'; reason: Permission denied
>
> Dan could confirm this on his system.

That is expected. Both 444 and 555 are missing write permissions, and
strip re-writes the file.