Hans Hagen writes:

i once complained about it but at that time it was not considered to be annyoing i.e. a feature -)

"Not writing" instead of "Not reading" for \openin is a buglet, and annoying.

the problem is that the writing message results from context trying to see if there is a file present in the parent folder (which can be true in the case of a project setup)

Well, for that to work you have to relax the settings at least to 'r(estricted)' from the default 'p(aranoid)'. Otherwise files with names starting with '../' are not opened anyway.

i cc to olaf, maybe there is a fix possible i.e. just not issue the message when there is an openin (when no writing is involved anyway)

I'll think about ut. -- Olaf Weber (This space left blank for technical reasons.)