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 08:10:06 -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> <4EE89590.2040503@cornell.edu> <4EE89CAB.8080301@cornell.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1323868707 25353 80.91.229.12 (14 Dec 2011 13:18:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:18:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 10257@debbugs.gnu.org, jari.aalto@cante.net To: Ken Brown Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 14 14:18:22 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 1Raoiz-0001yN-Ro for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:18:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43974 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Raoiz-0004wS-5N for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 08:18:21 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:42733) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Raoid-0003op-Sp for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 08:18:19 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RaobW-0000d7-09 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 08:10:43 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:36825) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RaobV-0000d2-Uh for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 08:10:37 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Raocr-0003y7-Ik for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 08:12:01 -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 13:12:01 +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=B10257.132386829415221 (code B ref 10257); Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:12:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 10257) by debbugs.gnu.org; 14 Dec 2011 13:11:34 +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 1RaocP-0003xS-S4 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 08:11:33 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RaocO-0003xL-5Y for 10257@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 08:11:32 -0500 Original-Received: from eliz by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Raob0-0001RU-If; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 08:10:06 -0500 In-reply-to: <4EE89CAB.8080301@cornell.edu> (message from Ken Brown on Wed, 14 Dec 2011 07:55:07 -0500) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 08:12:01 -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:54948 Archived-At: > Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 07:55:07 -0500 > From: Ken Brown > CC: 10257@debbugs.gnu.org, Jari Aalto > > As I understand it, this is a filesystem problem: Samba returns a > fake SID to Windows, so Cygwin can't determine the correct uid/gid. > Jari, you were already told on the Cygwin list how to work around > this problem. Why not just do it? Either that, or make euidaccess/check_writable return success in such cases. After all, it is well known that on Windows the equivalent of euidaccess (AccessCheck and its ilk) is even more of an approximation than on Posix, due to implicit access rights granted through membership in multiple user groups.