Eclipse not letting me edit a file under CVS

jkinz-+hffLmS/kj4 at public.gmane.org jkinz-+hffLmS/kj4 at public.gmane.org
Tue Feb 10 09:30:54 EST 2009


On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 10:44:07AM -0500, Doug wrote:
> Hello:
> 
> I can edit this file using emacs:
> 
> > ls -l CryptoInfoAgent.pm
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 dsweetser users 3055 2009-02-09 10:40 CryptoInfoAgent.pm
> 
> I go to use Eclipse, and it says the file is read-only.  It is the
> same file in my workspace. I am new to Eclipse, but want to use it
> more, but not being able to edit an editable file is not good for my
> constitution.  Ideas?

Is the Eclipse process running as a different user than dsweetser?

"htop" can be sorted by user to make it easier to find this out, or
ps aux | grep <eclipse command name> can be used





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