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: Emacs on Windows keeps complaining: the directory ... is unsafe. Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 06:16:53 +0300 Message-ID: <83iqjosgd6.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87skitkvr4.fsf@telefonica.net> <83k544sw84.fsf@gnu.org> <87iqjols8w.fsf@telefonica.net> <87eiuclnk2.fsf@telefonica.net> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1243307835 19555 80.91.229.12 (26 May 2009 03:17:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 03:17:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?windows-1252?Q?=D3scar_Fuentes?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 26 05:17:08 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 1M8nA1-0004UO-Qy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 May 2009 05:17:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40067 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M8nA1-0000JI-18 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 May 2009 23:17:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M8n9w-0000J3-4v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 May 2009 23:17:00 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M8n9t-0000Ir-LH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 May 2009 23:16:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52578 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M8n9t-0000Io-Hg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 May 2009 23:16:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout3.012.net.il ([84.95.2.7]:23148) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M8n9t-0005nq-61 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 May 2009 23:16:57 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.i_mtaout3.012.net.il by i_mtaout3.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) id <0KK800M00E9MOL00@i_mtaout3.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 May 2009 06:16:55 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.228.115.215]) by i_mtaout3.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) with ESMTPA id <0KK800478EG4OQC0@i_mtaout3.012.net.il>; Tue, 26 May 2009 06:16:55 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87eiuclnk2.fsf@telefonica.net> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 9.1 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:111101 Archived-At: > From: =?windows-1252?Q?=D3scar_Fuentes?= > Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 02:23:25 +0200 > > This gave me an idea: renamed away .emacs.d. Started a new emacs > instance, which complained: > > File error: Opening output file, no such file or directory, d:/home/.emacs.d/server/server > > so started eshell and created the directory d:/home/.emacs.d/server/ > > Now file-attributes returns 500 for the file uid, the same value as > user-uid returns, and server-ensure-safe-dir does not complain. > > Why file-attributes returns 544 for the file uid on the old directory? 544 is the uid of the Administrators group. Files created by the user Administrator are frequently seen on Windows as owned by the Administrators group, not by the user Administrator. But since recreating that directory from Emacs had the directory attributed to the user Administrator (uid = 500), perhaps the owner Windows records depends on how the directory is created. Can you experiment with different ways of creating directories, like from the Windows shell, from Explorer, with the Emacs make-directory function, and tell the results? Thanks.