From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs Subject: Re: Recursive copies in Dired do not preserve directory permissions Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:23:40 +0000 Message-ID: <4728F25C.2060602@gnu.org> References: <874pgldhhu.fsf@gmx.de> <87wst8fmfh.fsf@gmx.de> <87sl3rcj67.fsf@gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1193865865 13905 80.91.229.12 (31 Oct 2007 21:24:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:24:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juanma Barranquero , svenjoac@gmx.de, rms@gnu.org, emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 31 22:24:27 2007 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 1InL2w-0004lF-OT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 22:24:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1InL2n-0000hE-1c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:24:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1InL2j-0000e5-5L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:24:05 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1InL2h-0000bN-O9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:24:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1InL2h-0000bI-Gt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:24:03 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1InL2g-0002TS-Vl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:24:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.gnu.org ([199.232.76.166] helo=mx10.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1InL2g-00033S-3Y for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:24:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1InL2c-0002Rc-A1 for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:24:01 -0400 Original-Received: from outmail1.freedom2surf.net ([194.106.33.237]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1InL2Y-0002Ps-5w; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:23:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] (i-83-67-23-108.freedom2surf.net [83.67.23.108]) by outmail1.freedom2surf.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8282F51625; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:23:48 +0000 (GMT) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) In-Reply-To: X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:82258 gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs:20218 Archived-At: 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.