From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: 23.0.50; Middle w in of permissions in dired-mode is red and bold: dired-warning Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 00:21:01 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87hckt9z1u.fsf_-_@jurta.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1192397098 29396 80.91.229.12 (14 Oct 2007 21:24:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 21:24:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 14 23:24:48 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IhAwl-0005kc-OT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Oct 2007 23:24:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IhAwe-000108-S4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Oct 2007 17:24:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IhAw8-0000mq-4r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Oct 2007 17:23:48 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IhAw7-0000mQ-Do for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Oct 2007 17:23:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IhAw7-0000mM-4r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Oct 2007 17:23:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman.kiev.sovam.com ([89.162.150.100]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IhAw2-0001bp-Oi; Sun, 14 Oct 2007 17:23:43 -0400 Original-Received: from relay01.kiev.sovam.com ([62.64.120.200]) by mailman.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.63 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1IhDjQ-0002wg-0u; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 00:22:52 +0000 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by relay01.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IhAvz-000AAM-8R; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 00:23:39 +0300 In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun\, 14 Oct 2007 22\:24\:02 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanner-Signature: 068dd79c68aafbc760c35e97c5d420ed X-DrWeb-checked: yes X-SpamTest-Envelope-From: juri@jurta.org X-SpamTest-Group-ID: 00000000 X-SpamTest-Header: Not Detected X-SpamTest-Info: Profiles 1603 [Oct 14 2007] X-SpamTest-Info: helo_type=3 X-SpamTest-Info: {HEADERS: header Content-Type found without required header Content-Transfer-Encoding} X-SpamTest-Method: none X-SpamTest-Rate: 25 X-SpamTest-Status: Not detected X-SpamTest-Status-Extended: not_detected X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 3.0.0 [0255], KAS30/Release X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 6.x (1) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:80872 Archived-At: >> And now we still see "warn" in the >> face name, presumably for purely legacy reasons. What's that about? > > It warns about group-writable and world-writable files. Presumably, > some people see a potential security hole in such files. (I say such > people need an OS that's better protected than your garden-variety > GNU/Linux or Unix, like SELinux, but that's me.) I don't understand the need of adding a new face `dired-warn-writable'? It adds another unnecessary face, and still doesn't fix a problem of the annoying bold red indication of group and world writable permissions. If no one finds this indication useful, we can remove it completely (I must admit it never helped me to find wrong permissions). Otherwise, we could revert the `dired-warning' face to less annoying colors, and maybe turn this face off by default on Windows (is this possible to do with a face condition?) -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/