From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>,
svenjoac@gmx.de, rms@gnu.org, emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Recursive copies in Dired do not preserve directory permissions
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:23:40 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4728F25C.2060602@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <u8x5jqc1p.fsf@gnu.org>
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Did someone verify that (set-file-modes FOO #o700) works on MS-Windows
> when FOO is a directory? If not, it's not safe to install this on the
> Emacs 22 branch.
>
It doesn't cause an error, if that was what you meant.
set-file-modes uses the system library's _chmod function, which only
works on files on Windows, and only the owner write permission has any
effect.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-31 21:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-20 13:48 Recursive copies in Dired do not preserve directory permissions Sven Joachim
2007-10-21 7:25 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-27 18:21 ` Sven Joachim
2007-10-28 13:51 ` Richard Stallman
2007-10-28 16:29 ` Sven Joachim
2007-10-31 17:01 ` Sven Joachim
2007-10-31 18:26 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-10-31 20:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-10-31 21:23 ` Jason Rumney [this message]
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