Cannot create </users1/torres/.kshrc> (errno:5)

[William Roberts;]

In <1991Apr28.180726.520 at deadzone.uucp> marcelo at deadzone.uucp (Marcelo 
Gallardo) writes:

>	The "(error:5)" is the part that I don't understand.
>	Anyone know what error:5 is, or where I might find it in the
>	manuals?

The place to look is actually "man 2 intro", which lists the numbers, the 
#defined names, the string that perror would produce, and an explanation of 
some sort. For errno=5 it says

          5  EIO  I/O error
               Some physical I/O error has occurred.  This error may
               in some cases occur on a call following the one to
               which it actually applies.

Write-protected disk, perhaps? The comment about "may pccur on a following 
call" is to do with UNIX buffering of disk writes: various "this should never 
have happened" errors are only discovered when the write actually takes place, 
so they get reported rather late...
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