From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master 9d626df: Add 'nofollow' flag to set-file-modes etc.
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2020 15:02:06 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <34bee2b9-0a34-2a85-15cf-f846888ed144@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k14bni2b.fsf@detlef.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me>
On 2/25/20 1:15 AM, Michael Albinus wrote:
> Shouldn't Tramp behave similar, and raise an error if "chmod -h" or
> something similar does not work?
Yes and no. If FOO is a symlink and "chmod -h FOO" fails, set-file-modes
should signal an error. But if FOO is a non-symlink file and "chmod -h
FOO" fails on a platform like GNU/Linux where chmod does not have an -h
option, set-file-modes should not signal an error; it should use plain
"chmod FOO" instead.
(Andreas's recent comment was right as usual, by the way.)
PS. I followed up the set-file-modes change with a similar proposal for
set-file-times (Bug#39773).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-25 23:02 UTC|newest]
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[not found] ` <20200224004619.58020206ED@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org>
2020-02-24 13:52 ` master 9d626df: Add 'nofollow' flag to set-file-modes etc Michael Albinus
2020-02-25 0:25 ` Paul Eggert
2020-02-25 9:15 ` Michael Albinus
2020-02-25 23:02 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2020-02-26 0:29 ` Michael Albinus
2020-02-25 9:23 ` Andreas Schwab
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