From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#13226: 24.3.50; set-file-acl on MS Windows shall check ACL string format Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 13:36:43 -0500 Message-ID: References: <877goexm9e.fsf@gmx.de> <87licuytom.fsf@gmx.de> <83vcbyngxt.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1355942227 16121 80.91.229.3 (19 Dec 2012 18:37:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 18:37:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Michael Albinus , 13226@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 19 19:37:21 2012 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 1TlOW6-0005Zx-OJ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Dec 2012 19:37:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57423 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TlOVt-0004s6-8t for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Dec 2012 13:37:05 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:47971) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TlOVp-0004rB-5x for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Dec 2012 13:37:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TlOVn-0007Ru-96 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Dec 2012 13:37:01 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:40925) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TlOVn-0007Ro-6P for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Dec 2012 13:36:59 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TlOVq-0003Zo-47 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Dec 2012 13:37:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Stefan Monnier Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 18:37:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 13226 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 13226-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B13226.135594221013729 (code B ref 13226); Wed, 19 Dec 2012 18:37:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 13226) by debbugs.gnu.org; 19 Dec 2012 18:36:50 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51176 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TlOVe-0003ZN-6A for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 19 Dec 2012 13:36:50 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:49068) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TlOVc-0003ZF-7H for 13226@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 19 Dec 2012 13:36:48 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ai0FAG6Zu09FxLDj/2dsb2JhbABEsEiDSYEIghUBAQQBViMFCws0EhQYDRABE4gcBboJkEQDiEKacYFYgwc X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.75,637,1330923600"; d="scan'208";a="210364028" Original-Received: from 69-196-176-227.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.196.176.227]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 19 Dec 2012 13:36:44 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id F0DF74E0D7; Wed, 19 Dec 2012 13:36:43 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <83vcbyngxt.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 19 Dec 2012 18:29:50 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.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:68757 Archived-At: > I think we are taking this feature out of proportions. It was > supposed to allow copying extended attributes from file to file; for > that, we don't need to care whether the ACL is trivial or not. But > now we seem to start down the road of trying to interpret the ACL, > which would need much more complex machinery. That makes sense, yes. BTW, I don't think we should document that file-acl returns a string. The representation should be documented as undocumented and prone to change (ideally opaque). Stefan