From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#37884: 27.0.50; Cannot write to a file in VirtualBox shared directory Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 16:37:26 +0200 Message-ID: <83ftj9nfq1.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87h83zeoy1.fsf@pobox.com> <87blu2emi3.fsf@pobox.com> <83lft6rxrs.fsf@gnu.org> <874kztdy0l.fsf@pobox.com> <87zhhkc4vs.fsf@pobox.com> <87sgnad3m4.fsf@pobox.com> <831ruup5dw.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="5263"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: 37884@debbugs.gnu.org, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, bernardo.bacic@pobox.com To: Robert Pluim Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 31 15:48:10 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iQBk7-0001DW-VQ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Oct 2019 15:48:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51001 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iQBk4-0008AJ-UZ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:48:04 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:49158) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iQBaN-0006AP-Bk for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:38:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iQBaM-0005tw-4I for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:38:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:45194) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iQBaM-0005tR-0o for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:38:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iQBaL-0007rb-Pn for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:38:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:38:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 37884 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 37884-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B37884.157253265730197 (code B ref 37884); Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:38:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 37884) by debbugs.gnu.org; 31 Oct 2019 14:37:37 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54015 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iQBZw-0007qy-Sf for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:37:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:39965) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iQBZu-0007qj-H8 for 37884@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:37:35 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:54329) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iQBZn-00040N-Fq; Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:37:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2458 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1iQBZm-00071b-Bx; Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:37:26 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Robert Pluim on Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:38:59 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:170518 Archived-At: > From: Robert Pluim > Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:38:59 +0100 > Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, bernardo.bacic@pobox.com > > Paul> In contrast, Bernardo's suggestion is > Paul> simpler, involves no extra system calls (or machine instructions, for > Paul> that matter), and has been tested. So I installed the attached patch > Paul> to implement and document the workaround, and am optimistically > Paul> closing the bug report. > > Looks good to me. I was trying to avoid that, since I thought there > was a strong desire to keep the file read-only, otherwise why bother > with the fchmod in the first place? Exactly my line of reasoning. But if there's no special reason to have that file unwritable, then a simpler change is of course better.