From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Josh <josh@foxtail.org>
Cc: ran@lasgalen.net, 16133@debbugs.gnu.org, eggert@cs.ucla.edu
Subject: bug#16133: 24.3; copy-file fails on chmod when copying to FAT filesystem
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2013 05:44:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8361qqg4mq.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANdFEAH-D4mk7SyMcjFojhYfBAkfwz89A0_qep7=yyvK5sd2NA@mail.gmail.com>
> From: Josh <josh@foxtail.org>
> Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 13:21:58 -0800
> Cc: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>,
> Валерия Лихушина <ran@lasgalen.net>,
> 16133@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> >> It might be reasonable to error only when the existing
> >> PRESERVE-UID-GID argument was non-nil.
> >
> > That argument has nothing to do with mode bits, which is what this bug
> > is about.
>
> That argument being nil indicates that the user doesn't care about
> preserving UID and GID. Are there cases when the user would care
> about preserving mode bits but not UID and GID?
Definitely. MS-Windows is one such case.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-15 3:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-13 19:51 bug#16133: 24.3; copy-file fails on chmod when copying to FAT filesystem Artem Chuprina
2013-12-13 22:51 ` Glenn Morris
2013-12-13 22:55 ` Glenn Morris
2013-12-14 10:10 ` Artem Chuprina
2013-12-14 20:19 ` Glenn Morris
2013-12-14 20:46 ` Josh
2013-12-14 20:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-12-14 21:21 ` Josh
2013-12-15 3:44 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-12-14 20:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-12-14 21:07 ` Achim Gratz
2013-12-15 14:38 ` Artem Chuprina
2013-12-16 14:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-12-20 23:27 ` Paul Eggert
2013-12-22 0:01 ` Paul Eggert
2013-12-22 3:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-12-22 4:01 ` Paul Eggert
2013-12-22 15:50 ` Artem Chuprina
2013-12-22 19:03 ` Paul Eggert
2013-12-22 20:13 ` Artem Chuprina
2013-12-23 23:58 ` Paul Eggert
2013-12-24 6:52 ` Artem Chuprina
2013-12-24 9:58 ` Andreas Schwab
2013-12-24 10:22 ` Artem Chuprina
2013-12-24 17:39 ` Paul Eggert
2013-12-24 16:51 ` Artem Chuprina
2013-12-29 18:31 ` Paul Eggert
2013-12-22 16:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-12-22 17:37 ` Paul Eggert
2013-12-22 18:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-12-22 18:54 ` Paul Eggert
2013-12-22 20:32 ` Artem Chuprina
2013-12-22 21:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
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