From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Josh Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#16133: 24.3; copy-file fails on chmod when copying to FAT filesystem Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 13:21:58 -0800 Message-ID: References: <87vbysv8av.fsf@wizzle.ran.pp.ru> <87ob4jvj45.fsf@wizzle.ran.pp.ru> <837gb7f8vm.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1387056190 24479 80.91.229.3 (14 Dec 2013 21:23:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 21:23:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: =?UTF-8?Q?=D0=92=D0=B0=D0=BB=D0=B5=D1=80=D0=B8=D1=8F_?= =?UTF-8?Q?=D0=9B=D0=B8=D1=85=D1=83=D1=88=D0=B8=D0=BD=D0=B0?= , 16133@debbugs.gnu.org, Paul Eggert To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 14 22:23:15 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Vrwg6-0002ZZ-J3 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Sat, 14 Dec 2013 13:22:29 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.194.24.7 with HTTP; Sat, 14 Dec 2013 13:21:58 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <837gb7f8vm.fsf@gnu.org> X-Google-Sender-Auth: pXNAvUVHrWw6_1lNDpLWTNKsSR0 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:81990 Archived-At: On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: Josh >> Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 12:46:59 -0800 >> Cc: Paul Eggert , Artem Chuprina , >> 16133@debbugs.gnu.org >> >> On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Glenn Morris wrote: >> > I don't know how we tidy this up for the future though. >> > Add yet another optional argument "error-if-permissions-fail"? Yuck. >> >> It might be reasonable to error only when the existing >> PRESERVE-UID-GID argument was non-nil. > > That argument has nothing to do with mode bits, which is what this bug > is about. That argument being nil indicates that the user doesn't care about preserving UID and GID. Are there cases when the user would care about preserving mode bits but not UID and GID?