From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 43723@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#43723: 27.1; Errors in file-extended-attributes prevent from saving buffer
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2022 18:22:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zgiprccq.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83sgaziav1.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 30 Sep 2020 17:43:14 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> When some volume is mounted such that file-extended-attributes fails
> for files there (because the agent used to mount doesn't support ACLs
> or SELinux), this prevents users from saving their edits to files on
> that volume, because file-extended-attributes signals an error. This
> appears as a regression to users because Emacs 26 silently ignored
> such errors.
>
> To allow users to save the files in these cases, but still keep them
> informed about the loss of potentially important attributes, Emacs
> should probably warn about this, allow the user to decide he/she wants
> to ignore the problem, and record this fact somewhere, to avoid asking
> the same question again for the same volume.
Do you have a test case to reproduce this problem? I don't really use
SELinux myself...
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-30 14:43 bug#43723: 27.1; Errors in file-extended-attributes prevent from saving buffer Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-06 16:22 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2022-06-06 16:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-07 9:26 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-07 11:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-07 11:52 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-07 13:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-07 18:04 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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