From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: set-file-modes on w32
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:18:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e01d8a50910141518g598cb20dg7e48e1a4a5d719df@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83eip5j0tl.fsf@gnu.org>
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
>> Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:39:19 +0200
>> Cc: Emacs-Devel devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
>>
>> > Not much: W32 file systems tend to have very few mode bits (although NTFS
>> > supports ACLs): they are Archive, Read Only, Hidden, and System. I think
>> > that `set-file-modes' only affects R.
>>
>> Thanks, that was what I expected.
>>
>> But should not set-file-modes doc string reflect this in some way?
>
> set-file-modes does on Windows what it meaningfully can. Some day, a
> more thorough implementation based on native Windows file security
> might do the same it does on Windows. I don't think users should
> bother about these differences in implementation.
Why not? What happens today if the user tries to do something that is
not supported?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-14 22:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-14 16:03 set-file-modes on w32 Lennart Borgman
2009-10-14 16:32 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-10-14 16:37 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-10-14 16:38 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-10-14 16:35 ` Davis Herring
2009-10-14 16:39 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-10-14 16:57 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-10-14 17:06 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-10-14 18:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-14 22:18 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2009-10-15 4:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
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