SYNOPSIS string valid_write(string path, string uid, string func, object ob) DESCRIPTION This function is called to check if the object ob with the user-id uid has write permissions to the file given by path for the operation named by func. It should return 0 if permission is denied, or the normalized path if permission is granted. You can also return 1 to indicate that the path can be used unchanged. The returned pathname must not contain ``..'', a leading / will be stripped by the interpreter. Func denotes the efun call or other operation that caused valid_write() to be called: copy_file (for the target file or directory name) rename_from (efun rename(), for the original name) rename_to (efun rename(), for the new name) ed_start (whenever the builtin ed tries to write to a file), garbage_collection mkdir, objdump opcdump remove_file (efun rm()), rmdir, save_object, write_bytes, write_file. For save_object(), the <path> passed is the filename as given in the efun call. If for this efun a filename ending in ".c" is returned, the ".c" will be stripped from the filename. This function is called in compat mode as well. If you need to be compatible with the old 2.4.5-mudlib, redirect these calls to the valid_read/valid_write in the user object. HISTORY LDMud 3.2.8 adds operation "copy_file", and replaces "do_rename" by "rename_from" and "rename_to". LDMud 3.2.9 adds operation "garbage_collection". SEE ALSO valid_read(M), make_path_absolute(M)