From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: set-file-modes on w32 Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:19:02 +0200 Message-ID: <83eip5j0tl.fsf@gnu.org> References: <39352.130.55.118.19.1255538122.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1255544362 20780 80.91.229.12 (14 Oct 2009 18:19:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:19:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lennart Borgman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 14 20:19:10 2009 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 1My8RJ-00071I-Io for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:19:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46804 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1My8RI-0002VV-Vl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:19:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1My8PW-0000pc-4f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:17:18 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1My8PR-0000hv-2N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:17:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=57623 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1My8PQ-0000hf-R9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:17:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:30452) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1My8PQ-0001R5-EF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:17:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1My8PP-0007KM-Fo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:17:11 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KRI00B00NQCPI00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:17:03 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.70.117.47]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KRI007XAO4EYQ70@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:17:03 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by mx20.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:116147 Archived-At: > From: Lennart Borgman > Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:39:19 +0200 > Cc: Emacs-Devel devel >=20 > > Not much: W32 file systems tend to have very few mode bits (altho= ugh NTFS > > supports ACLs): they are Archive, Read Only, Hidden, and System. = =C2=A0I think > > that `set-file-modes' only affects R. >=20 > Thanks, that was what I expected. >=20 > But should not set-file-modes doc string reflect this in some way? set-file-modes does on Windows what it meaningfully can. Some day, a more thorough implementation based on native Windows file security might do the same it does on Windows. I don't think users should bother about these differences in implementation.