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Subject: Re: Emacs on Windows keeps complaining: the directory ... is unsafe.
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> From: =?windows-1252?Q?=D3scar_Fuentes?= <ofv@wanadoo.es>
> Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 16:33:12 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > By the way, was the .emacs.d directory created originally by some
> > Cygwin tool?
> 
> That happened long time ago. However, I doubt that anything else than
> emacs created that directory.

Hmm, strange.  That would mean something's changed in Emacs since
then, but I don't think make-directory was ever changed on Windows wrt
file ownership.  We just call a Windows _mkdir function.