From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sven Joachim Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: unable to copy directory recursively to a vfat partition Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:54:04 +0200 Message-ID: <87tzefzv2b.fsf@gmx.de> References: <20080723185150.txs6e4gbr23ow0g4@webmail.mit.edu> <87zlo7zw5u.fsf@gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216879232 26877 80.91.229.12 (24 Jul 2008 06:00:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:00:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Chong Yidong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 24 08:01:21 2008 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 1KLtt8-0001Yk-Kw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:01:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51453 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KLtsE-0006PR-Mm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:00:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KLtrB-0005nX-U8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:59:18 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KLtr9-0005lw-V1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:59:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=33763 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KLtr9-0005lk-PC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:59:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:36016) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KLtr9-0006S9-Pt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:59:16 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 24 Jul 2008 05:59:14 -0000 Original-Received: from p54867081.dip.t-dialin.net (EHLO debian) [84.134.112.129] by mail.gmx.net (mp024) with SMTP; 24 Jul 2008 07:59:14 +0200 X-Authenticated: #28250155 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/lUKxpOWXlrFIw40LeqaNrQ6Wpa8qvvA6HMttSNP dgRrWbKv3zxclI In-Reply-To: <87zlo7zw5u.fsf@gmx.de> (Sven Joachim's message of "Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:30:21 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.65 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:101370 Archived-At: On 2008-07-24 07:30 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > I do have access to vfat, but I cannot reproduce the bug. IIRC there > was some change in Linux 2.6.25 that caused the chmod call to report > failure (it never works on vfat anyway, but that used to be silently > ignored). This change seems to have been reverted in the meantime, > though; I'm running 2.6.26 here. The change in 2.6.25 also broke rsync, as can be seen on https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449080. I'll have a look at the problem when I get around to reboot with a 2.6.25 kernel. Sven