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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org,
	bug-gnulib@gnu.org
Subject: Re: errors from fchownat copying directories
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2023 19:57:55 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83jzthlp0s.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <13334762.uLZWGnKmhe@nimes> (message from Bruno Haible on Sat, 26 Aug 2023 18:40:20 +0200)

> From: Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, bug-gnulib@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2023 18:40:20 +0200
> 
> Paul Eggert wrote:
> > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=349798a9b81fb4f7f8e1e1963ea9039a4a68a471
> 
> Isn't there something missing in this function 'copy-directory',
> around emacs/lisp/files.el line 6624? I see code for preserving the modes
> and the times, but not for preserving the owner.

See

  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2009-10/msg00094.html

and the ensuing discussion, where we eventually decided not to do
that.



      reply	other threads:[~2023-08-26 16:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-08-26  7:38 master 349798a9b8: Demote errors from utimensat copying directories Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-26  8:22 ` Po Lu
2023-08-26  9:07   ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-26  9:33     ` Po Lu
2023-08-26 16:12   ` Paul Eggert
2023-08-26 16:40     ` errors from fchownat " Bruno Haible
2023-08-26 16:57       ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]

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