On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Sid Chang wrote:

> Since I ran curl https on the embedded system from a mounted read-only
> directory, is it possible that some 'write' attempts were hindered and thus
> the failure ?

It would surprise me.

But I guess you can easily find out by testing on a writable (ram?) fs or by
stracing to see if any attempt was made.

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