From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
Cc: bjorn.bidar@thaodan.de, 71732@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#71732: 30.0.50; [FR] xdg: provide an ability to create XDG directory, if it does not exist
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2024 13:12:42 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86v820dl2d.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pls8uhcu.fsf@localhost> (message from Ihor Radchenko on Sun, 23 Jun 2024 09:40:49 +0000)
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Björn Bidar <bjorn.bidar@thaodan.de>
> From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
> Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2024 09:40:49 +0000
>
> Currently `xdg-cache-home`, and other functions in xdg.el only return
> the path, but never create any directories.
Yes, because whether or not to create a missing directory is up to the
calling application. For example, if the application is looking for a
file in several possible locations, then a missing directory means
that particular location doesn't have the file, and the application
should look in the other places.
> However, to follow XDG spec, XDG directories must follow certain
> rules. In particular:
>
> If, when attempting to write a file, the destination directory is
> non-existent an attempt should be made to create it with permission
> 0700. If the destination directory exists already the permissions
> should not be changed.
> https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
>
> May you please add a functionality to xdg.el to create the directory
> with right permissions, so that xdg.el users do not need to know these
> technical details of the spec?
xdg.el is not about creating directories, it is about returning their
names.
The ability to create a directory with arbitrary permissions already
exists, and Emacs uses that in umpteen places. So I'm not sure what
is missing here. Not every two-liner needs a dedicated named API.
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-06-23 9:40 bug#71732: 30.0.50; [FR] xdg: provide an ability to create XDG directory, if it does not exist Ihor Radchenko
2024-06-23 10:12 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-06-23 10:20 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-06-23 10:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-06-23 10:35 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-06-23 11:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-06-23 11:42 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-06-23 11:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-06-23 12:12 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-06-23 12:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-06-23 12:28 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-06-23 12:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-06-23 21:09 ` Björn Bidar via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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2024-06-24 11:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-06-24 11:58 ` Björn Bidar via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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