From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: copy-directory Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2009 12:41:59 -0400 Message-ID: References: <8763avuyt3.fsf@gmx.de> <83zl87nw88.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1254679757 6175 80.91.229.12 (4 Oct 2009 18:09:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 18:09:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Michael Albinus , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 04 20:09:11 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MuUA3-0004JX-Vm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Oct 2009 18:42:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50899 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MuUA3-0005gX-4K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Oct 2009 12:42:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MuU9w-0005eB-Dh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Oct 2009 12:42:08 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MuU9r-0005XA-19 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Oct 2009 12:42:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48427 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MuU9q-0005Wx-OL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Oct 2009 12:42:02 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.183]:64499 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MuU9o-0007KB-WD; Sun, 04 Oct 2009 12:42:01 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgkFAPpsyEpMCrS4/2dsb2JhbACBUs0lhCoEhyg X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.44,503,1249272000"; d="scan'208";a="47074902" Original-Received: from 76-10-180-184.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO ceviche.home) ([76.10.180.184]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 04 Oct 2009 12:41:59 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 80A3BB4103; Sun, 4 Oct 2009 12:41:59 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <83zl87nw88.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 04 Oct 2009 15:07:35 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:115894 Archived-At: > 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