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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Message #8 received at 13125 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 13125 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#13125: Fix permissions bugs with setgid directories etc.
Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2012 11:54:49 +0800

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

> I'm attaching a patch, which changes file-attributes so that it now
> outputs a placeholder value instead of the old 9th attribute member,
> since the value is rarely needed and almost nobody seems to be using
                     ^^^^^^

Have you actually done a survey of all the callers to file-attributes to
see if this is true?

> 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?
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