From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 39793@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#39793: 28.0.50; set-file-modes nofollow does not work on mounted directories
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2020 09:22:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zhd4mobx.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <db09231e-e787-c783-1ad7-3506645c4305@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Wed, 26 Feb 2020 17:13:45 -0800")
Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes:
Hi Paul,
> Thanks for reporting that. I installed the attached patch into master;
> please give it a try.
That works, thanks!
But isn't there the general problem of mounted directories? I fear, that
calling set-file-modes with nofollow over a symlink into a mounted
directory would show the same error. So I guess it might be better to
simply ignore such an error. Like in my case, you cannot predict whether
a symlink points into a mounted directory.
Best regards, Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-27 8:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-25 21:18 bug#39793: 28.0.50; set-file-modes nofollow does not work on mounted directories Michael Albinus
2020-02-27 1:13 ` Paul Eggert
2020-02-27 8:22 ` Michael Albinus [this message]
2020-02-27 19:33 ` Paul Eggert
2020-02-27 20:02 ` Michael Albinus
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