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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: set-file-extended-attributes and backups
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 19:50:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <834nj4lpc3.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <837go0lqqp.fsf@gnu.org>

> Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 19:20:30 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Cc: fabrice.popineau@supelec.fr, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> > From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> > Cc: fabrice.popineau@supelec.fr,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> > Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2012 08:37:52 -0500
> > 
> > >> > +       (ignore-errors
> > >> > +	 (set-file-extended-attributes to-name extended-attributes))))
> > >> I'd use something like with-demoted-errors instead.
> > > What about the race condition pointed out by Paul?  Should we try
> > > set-file-extended-attributes first, and fall back on set-file-modes if
> > > that fails (after displaying a message)?
> > 
> > That sounds fine, yes.
> 
> Now done on the trunk.

One side effect of these changes is that set-file-acl and
set-file-selinux-context now return t when they succeeded to set the
ACLs resp. SELinux context, and nil otherwise.  Micheal, could you
please adapt the Tramp handlers to this paradigm?  Thanks.



  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-29 17:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-21 14:53 set-file-extended-attributes and backups Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-21 16:00 ` Paul Eggert
2012-12-21 16:44   ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-21 17:48     ` Paul Eggert
2012-12-21 18:08       ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-21 18:31         ` Paul Eggert
2012-12-23 16:59     ` Romain Francoise
2012-12-23 17:35       ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-24  0:59         ` Stefan Monnier
2012-12-24  3:44           ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-24  5:18             ` Stefan Monnier
2012-12-24  8:25               ` Michael Albinus
2012-12-24 16:24               ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-21 18:31 ` Romain Francoise
2012-12-22 23:03   ` Fabrice Popineau
2012-12-23  3:54     ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-23 17:17       ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-22 16:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-12-22 17:03   ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-23 13:37     ` Stefan Monnier
2012-12-29 17:20       ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-12-29 17:50         ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2012-12-29 19:12           ` Michael Albinus
2012-12-30 10:59             ` Michael Albinus
2012-12-30 17:21               ` Eli Zaretskii

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