Re: is a value writeable?

[Dan Winship <danw helixcode com>]

> Yes, but then the value get() returns would not be modified, and your
> application should not change the setting that's currently in effect. 
> So setting it doesn't do you any good at all. Why do you want to set
> it in that case?

Oh, I was confused by the example; the readonly file name was
"workgroup_defaults", where "defaults" to me implies you can override
them if you don't like them, so I assumed changing the value in the rw
dir would do that, and that the message was pointing out the
difficulty in doing that. Now that I know the search order doesn't
work that way, it's obvious what the message is really talking about.

(I can't think of a replacement word for "defaults" that wouldn't be
ambiguous though.)

-- Dan