From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#10257: 23.3.1 Cygwin: network drives - file is write protected (false positive) Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:23:08 -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> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1323883456 11899 80.91.229.12 (14 Dec 2011 17:24:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:24:16 +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 18:24:11 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 1RasYr-0004D3-Ti for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 18:24:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45554 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RasYr-0003Pq-Ag for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:24:09 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:34457) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RasYZ-0003P1-Vm for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:24:07 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RasYL-0004W4-I7 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:23:51 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:37346) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RasYL-0004Vw-GJ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:23:37 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RasZh-0003dc-S9 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:25:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:25:01 +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=B10257.132388348213958 (code B ref 10257); Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:25:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 10257) by debbugs.gnu.org; 14 Dec 2011 17:24:42 +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 1RasZN-0003d4-O9 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:24:42 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RasZH-0003ct-UN for 10257@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:24:39 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RasXs-0001i3-BE; Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:23:08 -0500 In-reply-to: <4EE76B6E.7070904@cornell.edu> (message from Ken Brown on Tue, 13 Dec 2011 10:12:46 -0500) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:25:01 -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:54958 Archived-At: I have a question about the emacs side of this. I wonder what the rationale is for testing writability before trying to save the file, and then asking the user for confirmation in case the (unreliable) test for writability fails (*). I think the reason for the fallible first test is to avoid things that are done (to backup files, for instance) before trying to write the file. It is good to avoid them if the write would fail anyway. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use free telephony http://directory.fsf.org/category/tel/