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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Philip Hodges <philip.hodges@bluewin.ch>
Cc: 17330@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17330: files.el cd-absolute overcome false negative	from	file-executable-p
Date: Wed, 07 May 2014 21:15:58 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ha51wj35.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E6923B15-B9A8-4B3C-ADDF-713810613ADD@bluewin.ch>

> From: Philip Hodges <philip.hodges@bluewin.ch>
> Date: Wed, 7 May 2014 00:15:51 +0200
> 
> It's just a very ordinary samba mount from a UNIX box to Windows.
> It's not magic at all. There are no special options configured.
> With umask 027 most of the folders are 750 and regular files are 640.

Thanks, but this is not enough.  The problem is not in the (emulated)
Posix permissions, it's in the Windows ACLs.  E.g., what does icacls
report for that directory?

> The "documentation" that I had in mind was just something like:
> ... calls system functions that can conceivably produce race conditions and false negatives. In case Emacs will not let you even try to cd to the directory, or use packages like ediff that change to it or start a subprocess with it as current working directory, you can try to overcome that refusal with (defun file-executable-p (dir) "" t) or (defadvice file-executable-p ... activate ...).

I prefer to solve the problem rather than ask users work around it.





       reply	other threads:[~2014-05-07 18:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <E6923B15-B9A8-4B3C-ADDF-713810613ADD@bluewin.ch>
2014-05-07 18:15 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2014-05-08  5:55   ` bug#17330: files.el cd-absolute overcome false negative from file-executable-p Philip Hodges
2014-05-08  7:09     ` Glenn Morris
2014-05-08 16:18     ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-11 10:46       ` Philip Hodges
2014-05-11 17:00         ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-11 18:26           ` Philip Hodges
2014-05-11 18:38             ` Glenn Morris
2014-05-11 21:59               ` Philip Hodges
2014-05-12  7:10                 ` Glenn Morris
2014-05-12  7:26                   ` Philip Hodges
2021-10-23  5:09               ` Stefan Kangas
2014-05-11 18:43             ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-03 22:43 bug#17330: thanks for the comments Philip Hodges
2014-05-04 13:24 ` bug#17330: files.el cd-absolute overcome false negative from file-executable-p Philip Hodges
2014-05-04 16:24   ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-05 22:43     ` Philip Hodges
2014-04-23 20:54       ` Philip Hodges
2014-05-03  0:24         ` Glenn Morris
2014-05-03  9:17           ` Philip Hodges
2014-05-03  9:35             ` Achim Gratz
2014-05-03 13:26               ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-03 13:58                 ` Achim Gratz
2014-05-03 16:37                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-03 13:40             ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-04  4:16             ` Glenn Morris
2014-05-04 13:01               ` Stefan Monnier
2014-05-04 16:18                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-04 18:07                 ` Glenn Morris
2014-05-04 22:44                   ` Stefan Monnier
2014-05-09  6:54                     ` Glenn Morris
2014-05-06  4:15         ` Glenn Morris
2014-05-06  7:17       ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-06 12:46       ` Stefan Monnier
2014-05-06 16:56         ` Glenn Morris
2014-05-11 13:55           ` Philip Hodges

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