From: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu>
Cc: monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org, spiegel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: VC, read-only buffers for writable files
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 03:39:40 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200210230739.g9N7dex06199@rum.cs.yale.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: E184FgT-0007id-00@fencepost.gnu.org
> Currently VC sometimes makes a file read-only because it thinks it's
^^^^
Sorry that should have been `buffer'.
> better that way for the user. More specifically, it makes it read-only
> if the file seems to be locked by another user.
>
> Under RCS, the file is read-only whenever the file is not locked by you.
> I think that is the right way to handle it.
If the file is indeed read-only, then everything works as expected,
but the VC code also tries to make the buffer read-only when the file
is locked by someone else and yet is writable. This can happen either
because the user is using group-permissions in unusual ways or because
VC is confused and doesn't realize the the current user and the user
holding the lock are one and the same.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-23 7:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-22 13:31 VC, read-only buffers for writable files Stefan Monnier
2002-10-22 14:35 ` Andre Spiegel
2002-10-22 14:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-10-23 7:12 ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-23 7:39 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2002-10-24 16:54 ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-24 17:03 ` Stefan Monnier
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