GNU bug report logs - #13125
Fix permissions bugs with setgid directories etc.

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2012 01:15:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch, security

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 13125 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13125: Fix permissions bugs with setgid directories etc.
Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2012 23:26:27 -0800

On 12/08/2012 07:54 PM, Chong Yidong wrote:
> Have you actually done a survey of all the callers to file-attributes to
> see if this is true?

Yes, all the callers that are distributed as part of Emacs.

>> > Instead, the patch moves this functionality to
>> > file-ownership-preserved-p via a new argument GROUP.
> Why can't this functionality be kept in file-attributes?

Performance.  The functionality requires statting the parent directory
for each call to file-attributes.
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