From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#819: 23.0.60; group and owner "Everyone" - what's that about? Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 06:55:15 -0700 Message-ID: <003701c90aa8$07d8ec10$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> References: <001201c909e8$001b46a0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> <001901c90a02$d0cfa010$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> <000001c90a12$abd26030$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> <48B8951B.9030209@gnu.org> <002501c90a44$23eb0af0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> <48B8B5D2.603@gnu.org> <002e01c90a50$94a67c50$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> Reply-To: Drew Adams , 819@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1220105290 17234 80.91.229.12 (30 Aug 2008 14:08:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:08:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: "'Eli Zaretskii'" , <819@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com> Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 30 16:09:04 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KZR8B-00082X-CM for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:08:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51696 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KZR7C-0005r8-17 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Aug 2008 10:07:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KZR70-0005mw-QU for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Aug 2008 10:07:34 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KZR6y-0005mM-VL for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Aug 2008 10:07:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35255 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KZR6y-0005mH-QP for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Aug 2008 10:07:32 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu ([138.23.92.77]:55003) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KZR6x-0006bG-VC for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Aug 2008 10:07:32 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu (rzlab.ucr.edu [127.0.0.1]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id m7UE7TSt030620; Sat, 30 Aug 2008 07:07:30 -0700 Original-Received: (from debbugs@localhost) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id m7UE58GS029498; Sat, 30 Aug 2008 07:05:08 -0700 X-Loop: don@donarmstrong.com Resent-From: "Drew Adams" Resent-To: bug-submit-list@donarmstrong.com Resent-CC: Emacs Bugs Resent-Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:05:07 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: don@donarmstrong.com X-Emacs-PR-Message: report 819 X-Emacs-PR-Package: emacs X-Emacs-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 819-submit@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com id=B819.122010452726448 (code B ref 819); Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:05:07 +0000 Original-Received: (at 819) by emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; 30 Aug 2008 13:55:27 +0000 Original-Received: from agminet01.oracle.com (agminet01.oracle.com [141.146.126.228]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id m7UDtOCx026260 for <819@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com>; Sat, 30 Aug 2008 06:55:25 -0700 Original-Received: from rgmgw1.us.oracle.com (rgmgw1.us.oracle.com [138.1.186.110]) by agminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id m7UDtG1r007232; Sat, 30 Aug 2008 08:55:16 -0500 Original-Received: from acsmt702.oracle.com (acsmt702.oracle.com [141.146.40.80]) by rgmgw1.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.2.4) with ESMTP id m7UDtFWj020624; Sat, 30 Aug 2008 07:55:15 -0600 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/69.181.100.12) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Sat, 30 Aug 2008 06:55:15 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-reply-to: Thread-Index: AckKfzE9UMgEmQbUSU6E48JOsxemiwAKFJfw X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3350 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Resent-Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 10:07:34 -0400 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:19908 Archived-At: > OK, I think I know what is going on. You are using an Emacs 23 binary > that was built before Aug 15 this year, right? Yes, August 1, 2008. > If so, there was a bug in the code back then which would manifest > itself when w32-get-true-file-attributes was at its default value > `local'. The bug would cause Emacs to think that every file except > the root directory on each local drive was not local, and therefore > Emacs would not try to retrieve the file's security descriptor and > glean the owner and group from that. Instead, Emacs would fall back > on attributing each file to the user who runs Emacs. > > This is why you see the root directory owned by "Everyone", while the > rest of files are not. > > To see if my theory is right, either install a binary built after Aug > 15, or set w32-get-true-file-attributes to t and do a Dired on C:\. > If I'm right, you will see each and every file attributed to Everyone, > like I'd expect on a FAT32 volume. Bravo! Gagne. That was it - setting w32-get-true-file-attributes to t shows Everyone everywhere. Thanks for tracking this down. Sorry I didn't have a more recent build; it would have saved a bug report and your debugging time.