From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@gnu.org>
Cc: 13125@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13125: Fix permissions bugs with setgid directories etc.
Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2012 23:26:27 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50C43D23.8070507@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lid7zxpy.fsf@gnu.org>
On 12/08/2012 07:54 PM, Chong Yidong wrote:
> Have you actually done a survey of all the callers to file-attributes to
> see if this is true?
Yes, all the callers that are distributed as part of Emacs.
>> > Instead, the patch moves this functionality to
>> > file-ownership-preserved-p via a new argument GROUP.
> Why can't this functionality be kept in file-attributes?
Performance. The functionality requires statting the parent directory
for each call to file-attributes.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-09 7:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-09 1:13 bug#13125: Fix permissions bugs with setgid directories etc Paul Eggert
2012-12-09 3:54 ` Chong Yidong
2012-12-09 7:26 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2012-12-09 17:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-10 1:08 ` Paul Eggert
2012-12-14 19:00 ` Paul Eggert
2012-12-09 8:32 ` Michael Albinus
2012-12-09 8:56 ` Paul Eggert
2012-12-09 9:32 ` Michael Albinus
2012-12-09 16:43 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2012-12-10 0:46 ` Paul Eggert
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