From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
Cc: 39793@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#39793: 28.0.50; set-file-modes nofollow does not work on mounted directories
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2020 11:33:10 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b792327c-f5cf-2ca8-5220-607ff39b20b6@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zhd4mobx.fsf@gmx.de>
On 2/27/20 12:22 AM, Michael Albinus wrote:
> But isn't there the general problem of mounted directories? I fear, that
> calling set-file-modes with nofollow over a symlink into a mounted
> directory would show the same error.
Yes, that would happen. But this issue is independent of whether the
symlink points into a mounted directory because you'll get the same
error with set-file-modes with nofollow on a symlink into the same
directory. That's the point of nofollow: you don't want to follow the
symlink.
The error that prompted this bug report is that I mistakenly added
nofollow to a set-file-modes that was actually intended to follow a
symlink, and my mistake was independent of whether the symlink points to
a mounted directory.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-27 19:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-25 21:18 bug#39793: 28.0.50; set-file-modes nofollow does not work on mounted directories Michael Albinus
2020-02-27 1:13 ` Paul Eggert
2020-02-27 8:22 ` Michael Albinus
2020-02-27 19:33 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2020-02-27 20:02 ` Michael Albinus
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