From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#10257: 23.3.1 Cygwin: network drives - file is write protected (false positive) Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 03:35:07 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87aa71mwng.fsf@picasso.cante.net> <4EE270AA.2080702@cornell.edu> <20111210095858.GA19881@cante.cante.net> <4EE742B0.1080703@cornell.edu> <20111213140042.GA22678@picasso.cante.net> <4EE76B6E.7070904@cornell.edu> <4EE7B2A9.6060308@cornell.edu> <4EE8178F.5040004@cornell.edu> <87liqf1t04.fsf@picasso.cante.net> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1323851749 32727 80.91.229.12 (14 Dec 2011 08:35:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 08:35:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 10257@debbugs.gnu.org, jari.aalto@cante.net To: Jari Aalto Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 14 09:35:45 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RakJU-0007na-VD for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 09:35:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44451 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RakJU-0001Cb-Ab for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 03:35:44 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:58277) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RakJR-0001CL-2B for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 03:35:41 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RakJP-0005F5-ID for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 03:35:41 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:36573) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RakJP-0005F1-FL for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 03:35:39 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RakKj-0004cy-Oo for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 03:37:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 08:37:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 10257 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 10257-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B10257.132385179417752 (code B ref 10257); Wed, 14 Dec 2011 08:37:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 10257) by debbugs.gnu.org; 14 Dec 2011 08:36:34 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RakKH-0004cH-M9 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 03:36:33 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RakKF-0004cA-9W for 10257@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 03:36:32 -0500 Original-Received: from eliz by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RakIt-0003NH-Lz; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 03:35:07 -0500 In-reply-to: <87liqf1t04.fsf@picasso.cante.net> (message from Jari Aalto on Wed, 14 Dec 2011 10:01:47 +0200) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 03:37:01 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:54939 Archived-At: > From: Jari Aalto > Cc: Stefan Monnier , Eli Zaretskii , 10257@debbugs.gnu.org, jari > Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 10:01:47 +0200 > > I'm proposing following, > Jari > > 2011-12-14 Jari Aalto > > * files.el (basic-save-buffer-2): Add > `save-buffer-read-only-confirm-flag' to control asking to a > write-protected file. > (save-buffer-read-only-confirm-flag): New user variable > (bug#10257). Yuck! Are we going to add a knob for every possible misconfiguration of network filesystems and/or for every incompatibility in Posix emulation layers on Windows? Up till now, the way to deal with this was either to change the generic code (where it was deemed to be deficient in the first place), or ask the maintainers of the platform to fix that either in the platform libraries or in platform-specific code in Emacs. I think that is the right way; adding a user option every time is not, IMNSHO. If native Windows and even MS-DOS ports can DTRT with this, then how come Cygwin cannot?