From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>
Cc: 37475@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#37475: 27.0.50 bootstrap fails
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2019 13:56:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a7axuakl.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878sqi6kew.fsf@turtle.gmx.de> (Sven Joachim's message of "Sat, 21 Sep 2019 11:57:59 +0200")
On Sep 21 2019, Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> wrote:
> That's due to commit 9dc306b1db08 ("Improve reporting of I/O, access
> errors") which seems over-zealous here: if there are insufficient
> permissions to access the parent directory, file-readable-p ought to
> return nil, I think.
An inaccessible directory is empty for all intents and purposes, so
signaling an error is bogus.
This also breaks find-file.
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-21 11:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-21 9:07 bug#37475: 27.0.50 bootstrap fails Andreas Schwab
2019-09-21 9:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-21 9:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-21 9:57 ` Sven Joachim
2019-09-21 11:56 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2019-09-21 19:00 ` Paul Eggert
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