[OpenIndiana-discuss] no force write by root user?

[Rolf M. Dietze]

Quoting "Rolf M. Dietze" <rmd at orbit.in-berlin.de>:

> Quoting Tim Mooney via openindiana-discuss  
> <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org>:
>
>> In regard to: [OpenIndiana-discuss] no force write by root user?,  
>> Rolf M....:
>>
>>> if the root user wants to write back a file not writable as set by
>>> permissions a force write back (wq! in vi) does not work. Is that
>>> behavior intended? Other OSes as for instance oracle solaris, FreeBSD,
>>> Solaris 10 and so, allow a force write back
>>
>> That's not my experience on OI with vim.
>>
>> Are you sure it's not something like NFS or something else causing that?
>
> this behavior surprided me upon editing /etc/X11/xdm/Xresources. I wanted
> to have a localized xdm login logo.
>
> retried the behavior as follows:
> touch textfile
> chmod 444 textfile
> vi textfile
>
> doing a :wq! I get:
>
> E504: "noway" is read-only (cannot override: "W" in 'cpoptions')
> Press ENTER or type command to continue
>
> what does "W" in 'cpoptions' mean? Is that a setup probem with
> my shell? (zsh, same .zshrc as on FreeBSD and Oracle Solaris)
> with modified PATH setup...
>
ok, found it. It is the typical vim incompatibility. cpoptions is
a vim feature, sort of. Fixing that restores behavior as on other
plattforms. Since I do not have any vim stuff in my setup, this
must be a systems default. lets see what I am faster on, digging
into cim or compiling real vi:)

/rmd