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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Tramp and VC integration: "calling user"
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:34:08 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mzskym6e.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87is386k0h.fsf@emptydomain.de> ( Kai Gro?johann's message of "Thu, 31 Mar 2005 15:07:58 +0200")

> Suggestions for solving this:

> (1) New file operation file-mine-p, returns true if the file is owned
>     by the "calling user".  For non-special files, the calling user is
>     the user who invoked Emacs.  For Tramp files, the calling user is
>     the user logged into the remote host.

> (2) New file operation file-calling-user, returns the calling user, as
>     defined in (1).

> (3) Augment the return value of file-remote-p to indicate the calling
>     user.  The return value could be augmented to also indicate the
>     remote host, if the file is remote.

Could you remind me why file-writable-p can't be used?


        Stefan

  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-31 13:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-31 13:07 Tramp and VC integration: "calling user" Kai Großjohann
2005-03-31 13:34 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2005-03-31 14:40   ` Kai Großjohann
2005-03-31 15:50     ` Stefan Monnier
2005-03-31 17:13       ` Kai Großjohann
2005-03-31 16:54   ` Andre Spiegel
2005-04-01  4:10 ` Richard Stallman
2005-04-01 17:43   ` Andre Spiegel
2005-04-01 19:14     ` Stefan Monnier
2005-04-02 20:52       ` Andre Spiegel
2005-04-03 17:19         ` Michael Albinus
2005-04-03  5:19     ` Richard Stallman
2005-04-03 10:15 ` Kai Großjohann

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