From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 10257@debbugs.gnu.org, Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>
Subject: bug#10257: 23.3.1 Cygwin: network drives - file is write protected (false positive)
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 07:24:48 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EE89590.2040503@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1RakIt-0003NH-Lz@fencepost.gnu.org>
On 12/14/2011 3:35 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Jari Aalto<jari.aalto@cante.net>
>> Cc: Stefan Monnier<monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, Eli Zaretskii<eliz@gnu.org>, 10257@debbugs.gnu.org, jari<jari.aalto@cante.net>
>> Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 10:01:47 +0200
>>
>> I'm proposing following,
>> Jari
>>
>> 2011-12-14 Jari Aalto<jari.aalto@cante.net>
>>
>> * files.el (basic-save-buffer-2): Add
>> `save-buffer-read-only-confirm-flag' to control asking to a
>> write-protected file.
>> (save-buffer-read-only-confirm-flag): New user variable
>> (bug#10257).
>
> Yuck! Are we going to add a knob for every possible misconfiguration
> of network filesystems and/or for every incompatibility in Posix
> emulation layers on Windows?
>
> Up till now, the way to deal with this was either to change the
> generic code (where it was deemed to be deficient in the first place),
> or ask the maintainers of the platform to fix that either in the
> platform libraries or in platform-specific code in Emacs. I think
> that is the right way; adding a user option every time is not, IMNSHO.
>
> If native Windows and even MS-DOS ports can DTRT with this, then how
> come Cygwin cannot?
The MS-DOS port uses system-specific code in `check_writable' (see
fileio.c). I don't know whether the native Windows port DTRT for Jari's
network filesystem. Jari, can you test this?
Ken
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-14 12:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-09 18:23 bug#10257: 23.3.1 Cygwin: network drives - file is write protected (false positive) Jari Aalto
2011-12-09 20:33 ` Ken Brown
2011-12-10 9:58 ` jaalto
2011-12-13 12:18 ` Ken Brown
2011-12-13 14:00 ` jari
2011-12-13 14:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-13 15:12 ` Ken Brown
2011-12-13 19:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-12-13 20:16 ` Ken Brown
2011-12-14 2:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-12-14 3:27 ` Ken Brown
2011-12-14 8:01 ` Jari Aalto
2011-12-14 8:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-14 12:24 ` Ken Brown [this message]
2011-12-14 12:55 ` Ken Brown
2011-12-14 13:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-14 14:19 ` Ken Brown
2011-12-14 14:47 ` jari
2011-12-14 17:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-14 17:57 ` Ken Brown
2011-12-15 2:43 ` Ken Brown
2011-12-15 2:53 ` Ken Brown
2011-12-15 3:19 ` Ken Brown
2011-12-15 4:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-15 14:42 ` Ken Brown
2011-12-16 19:37 ` Ken Brown
2011-12-16 19:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-16 23:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-12-17 17:08 ` Ken Brown
2011-12-14 14:15 ` jari
2011-12-14 14:29 ` Ken Brown
2011-12-14 14:43 ` jari
2011-12-14 17:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-14 17:23 ` Richard Stallman
2011-12-13 16:26 ` jari
2011-12-13 16:52 ` Ken Brown
2011-12-13 17:48 ` jari
2011-12-13 17:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-13 18:05 ` jari
2011-12-13 18:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-15 14:44 ` Jason Rumney
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