From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Romain Francoise Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: set-file-extended-attributes and backups Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2012 17:59:52 +0100 Organization: orebokech dot com Message-ID: <87a9t4snzr.fsf@silenus.orebokech.com> References: <83obhntq1m.fsf@gnu.org> <50D48781.1050303@cs.ucla.edu> <83a9t7qrrw.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1356282013 21546 80.91.229.3 (23 Dec 2012 17:00:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2012 17:00:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Paul Eggert , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 23 18:00:28 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Tmoua-0006dY-CK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Dec 2012 18:00:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38996 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TmouJ-0005nv-4m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Dec 2012 12:00:11 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:43258) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tmou9-0005d1-Jw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Dec 2012 12:00:07 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tmou4-0001cc-9W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Dec 2012 12:00:01 -0500 Original-Received: from stringer.orebokech.com ([88.190.240.207]:32873) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tmou2-0001cB-6o; Sun, 23 Dec 2012 11:59:54 -0500 Original-Received: from silenus.orebokech.com (silenus [192.168.1.4]) by stringer.orebokech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A66C21880060; Sun, 23 Dec 2012 17:59:52 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by silenus.orebokech.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 733B9A0149; Sun, 23 Dec 2012 17:59:52 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <83a9t7qrrw.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 21 Dec 2012 18:44:19 +0200") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 88.190.240.207 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:155816 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > How about if it tried to copy ACLs, and if that failed, attempted to > copy the file modes? That would DTRT if possible, and fall back on > the pre-ACL method if not. If we do that we need to change `set-file-acl' to treat ENOTSUP as an error otherwise modes won't be copied on filesystems without ACL support.