From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ken Brown Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#10257: 23.3.1 Cygwin: network drives - file is write protected (false positive) Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 07:24:48 -0500 Message-ID: <4EE89590.2040503@cornell.edu> References: <87aa71mwng.fsf@picasso.cante.net> <4EE270AA.2080702@cornell.edu> <20111210095858.GA19881@cante.cante.net> <4EE742B0.1080703@cornell.edu> <20111213140042.GA22678@picasso.cante.net> <4EE76B6E.7070904@cornell.edu> <4EE7B2A9.6060308@cornell.edu> <4EE8178F.5040004@cornell.edu> <87liqf1t04.fsf@picasso.cante.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1323865552 2517 80.91.229.12 (14 Dec 2011 12:25:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:25:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 10257@debbugs.gnu.org, Jari Aalto To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 14 13:25:48 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ranu8-0000XD-2V for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:25:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45310 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ranu7-0002j2-JZ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 07:25:47 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:57327) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ranu0-0002ir-Nn for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 07:25:46 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rantz-00075X-E2 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 07:25:40 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:36737) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rantz-00075S-9e for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 07:25:39 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RanvK-0001Pc-CO for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 07:27:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Ken Brown Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:27:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 10257 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 10257-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B10257.13238655835383 (code B ref 10257); Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:27:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 10257) by debbugs.gnu.org; 14 Dec 2011 12:26:23 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ranug-0001Ol-2T for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 07:26:23 -0500 Original-Received: from granite1.mail.cornell.edu ([128.253.83.141] helo=authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ranud-0001Ob-68 for 10257@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 07:26:20 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.168.1.3] (cpe-67-249-194-47.twcny.res.rr.com [67.249.194.47]) (authenticated bits=0) by authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.12.10) with ESMTP id pBECOrHF023282 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Wed, 14 Dec 2011 07:24:54 -0500 (EST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 07:27:02 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:54945 Archived-At: On 12/14/2011 3:35 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: Jari Aalto >> Cc: Stefan Monnier, Eli Zaretskii, 10257@debbugs.gnu.org, jari >> Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 10:01:47 +0200 >> >> I'm proposing following, >> Jari >> >> 2011-12-14 Jari Aalto >> >> * files.el (basic-save-buffer-2): Add >> `save-buffer-read-only-confirm-flag' to control asking to a >> write-protected file. >> (save-buffer-read-only-confirm-flag): New user variable >> (bug#10257). > > Yuck! Are we going to add a knob for every possible misconfiguration > of network filesystems and/or for every incompatibility in Posix > emulation layers on Windows? > > Up till now, the way to deal with this was either to change the > generic code (where it was deemed to be deficient in the first place), > or ask the maintainers of the platform to fix that either in the > platform libraries or in platform-specific code in Emacs. I think > that is the right way; adding a user option every time is not, IMNSHO. > > If native Windows and even MS-DOS ports can DTRT with this, then how > come Cygwin cannot? The MS-DOS port uses system-specific code in `check_writable' (see fileio.c). I don't know whether the native Windows port DTRT for Jari's network filesystem. Jari, can you test this? Ken