Re: No error on unwritable output file

On Mon, 10 Jul 2023, Paul Gilmartin via curl-users wrote:

> Trying to inject an error for a test, I did chmod a-w of my --output
> file.  Curl exited with status 0.  I would have expected:
>    curl: (23) Failure writing output to destination

I could not reproduce with 7.88.1 nor current git master:

$ ls -l output
-r--r--r-- 1 dast dast 5 Jul  9 23:57 output
$ curl localhost -o output --no-progress-meter
Warning: Failed to open the file output: Permission denied
curl: (23) Failure writing output to destination
$ echo $?
23

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