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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: ran@lasgalen.net, 16133@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16133: 24.3; copy-file fails on chmod when copying to FAT filesystem
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2013 05:47:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ob498s3q.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52B62BC3.4050508@cs.ucla.edu>

> Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2013 16:01:07 -0800
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> CC: Artem Chuprina <ran@lasgalen.net>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> 
> > That's what "cp -p" does, FWIW.
> 
> I just checked the source code, and it looks like 'cp -p'
> reports an error if fchmod fails

It reports an error, but keeps copying the rest of the files.

> so trunk Emacs is behaving similarly to GNU cp here.

No, it doesn't: Emacs throws an error, and stops the copy operation,
even if there are more files to copy.

The suggestion was to report an error, but not throw to top level.





  reply	other threads:[~2013-12-22  3:47 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
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 [this message]
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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