From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: jari <jari.aalto@cante.net>
Cc: 10257@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#10257: 23.3.1 Cygwin: network drives - file is write protected (false positive)
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 19:48:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83d3bs8irk.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111213162628.GB22678@picasso.cante.net>
> Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:26:28 +0200
> From: jari <jari.aalto@cante.net>
> Cc: kbrown@cornell.edu, 10257@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> - The mapped drive can be written to without any extra 1:1 GUID,UID
> configuration.
> - Under Cygwin, should Emacs rely on unreliable[*] UID, GID?
> - Is there need for this extra prompt? The protective
> nature turned into nightmare.
>
> Much better would be to give control back to the user:
>
> (setq write-file-interactive-confirmation-flag nil)
>
> This doesn't affect Emacs's ability to signal an error on write
> failure.
Emacs assumes Posix-compliant APIs wrt UID/GID/EUID. Platforms that
don't comply with the Posix semantics of these APIs should either
(a) become more compliant, or (b) modify the Emacs sources with
platform-specific code or #ifdef's to work around the lack of
compliance. (Emacs maintainers generally prefer the former
possibility, for obvious reasons.) All the other platforms do one
or the other; why should Cygwin be different? why should we change
long-standing Emacs code because one platform turns out to be non-
compliant, and the user refuses to work around the problem by
configuring his system in a slightly different way?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-13 17:48 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
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 [this message]
2011-12-13 18:05 ` jari
2011-12-13 18:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-15 14:44 ` Jason Rumney
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