From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#41570: 26.3; dired chown Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2020 23:54:25 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83ftbksgmn.fsf@gnu.org> <837dtauiyg.fsf@gnu.org> <831rjgraw5.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="27113"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: stefan@marxist.se, 41570@debbugs.gnu.org, blicher@comcast.net To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 06 05:55:10 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kElll-0006w8-R1 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 06 Sep 2020 05:55:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46724 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kEllk-0003IZ-SC for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2020 23:55:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:47476) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kElle-0003GK-DN for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2020 23:55:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:32930) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kElle-0004Sp-4D for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2020 23:55:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kElle-00082c-3v for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2020 23:55:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 06 Sep 2020 03:55:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 41570 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 41570-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B41570.159936447630875 (code B ref 41570); Sun, 06 Sep 2020 03:55:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 41570) by debbugs.gnu.org; 6 Sep 2020 03:54:36 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44476 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kEllE-00081v-7O for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2020 23:54:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:37216) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kEllA-00081f-Sx for 41570@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2020 23:54:34 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:45081) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kEll5-0004LD-1F; Sat, 05 Sep 2020 23:54:27 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kEll3-0001lz-Rn; Sat, 05 Sep 2020 23:54:26 -0400 In-Reply-To: <831rjgraw5.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sat, 05 Sep 2020 09:32:58 +0300) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:187308 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > Perhaps the Dired O command should give an immediate error, perhaps > > > > Changing a file's owner not supported on this OS. Switch to GNU/Linux. > But this is not true: if one has a 'chown' command available (and I > do), it will and should work as intended. I was replying to a message which seemed to say there was none, but I don't claim to know anything about Windows. Whatever the situation may be, the message could give users suitable advice. "Install the chown command to make this work" could be used, provided the chown command in question is free software. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)