From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: copy-directory
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2009 12:41:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvzl87azc0.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83zl87nw88.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 04 Oct 2009 15:07:35 +0200")
> Please don't rely on the `chown' command being available for the
> preserve-uid-gid option.
Especially since chown only works for root anyway, and since I don't
think we should cater specially for root-uses of Emacs (I rather
discourage the use of Emacs when running as root), I'd rather we don't
touch the uid.
Stefan
next parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-04 16:41 UTC|newest]
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2009-10-04 16:41 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2009-10-04 20:02 ` copy-directory Michael Albinus
2009-10-05 3:13 ` copy-directory Stefan Monnier
2009-10-05 7:22 ` copy-directory Michael Albinus
2009-10-05 7:57 ` copy-directory David Kastrup
2009-10-06 17:26 ` copy-directory Michael Albinus
2009-10-06 18:50 ` copy-directory Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-04 19:58 ` copy-directory Michael Albinus
2009-10-04 21:31 ` copy-directory Eli Zaretskii
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