From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: about the byte-opt.el patch Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 09:03:04 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87hcoilt68.fsf@ambire.localdomain> <873b02tw7d.fsf@ambire.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1183727001 1466 80.91.229.12 (6 Jul 2007 13:03:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 13:03:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: fengli@gmail.com, Thien-Thi Nguyen , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 06 15:03:19 2007 connect(): Connection refused 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 1I6nSs-0005sR-W8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2007 15:03:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I6nSs-0001Wr-ED for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2007 09:03:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I6nSp-0001Wm-In for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2007 09:03:11 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I6nSo-0001WZ-HZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2007 09:03:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I6nSo-0001WW-EO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2007 09:03:10 -0400 Original-Received: from tomts13.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.34] helo=tomts13-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I6nSk-00036y-2o; Fri, 06 Jul 2007 09:03:06 -0400 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([74.12.208.200]) by tomts13-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <20070706130305.KNBE13659.tomts13-srv.bellnexxia.net@pastel.home>; Fri, 6 Jul 2007 09:03:05 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id ED9FA86CA; Fri, 6 Jul 2007 09:03:04 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri\, 06 Jul 2007 12\:50\:05 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Solaris 8 (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:74394 Archived-At: > Is this change really a good idea? It defeats the purpose of CVSREAD, > doesn't it? Actually, no it doesn't. "chmod +w" in such a context is more or less like a "checkout" in RCS, so it's about as close to the right thing as we can get. Unless of course the file is *not* changed. > Perhaps it is better to change autoload.el so that it can > update even read-only files, and preserve the read-only attribute of a > file after it's finished updating its autoload cookies. WDYT? I think that would be the wrong thing to do since you'd end up with a file still read-only but modified. Stefan