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26.0.60; Problem with mkdir() on root drive (ms-windows)

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From: Fabrice Popineau <fabrice.popineau <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 26.0.60; Problem with mkdir() on root drive (ms-windows)
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 10:26:27 +0200

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On the following:

(make-directory-internal "c:/")

emacs reports "Permission denied" rather than "File already exists".
This has several consequences.
First,
(make-directory "c:/" t)
should not error, but it does because it does not catch the
"Permission denied" error.
Second, while running
make check
in the current emacs-26 branch, there is a failure
in files-tests.el directly related to the previous point.

Suggestion: modify files--ensure-directory to catch the case
of a root drive and avoid/catch the permission denied error.

Best regards,

Fabrice


In GNU Emacs 26.0.60 (build 3, x86_64-w64-mingw32)
 of 2017-09-19 built on LOBSANG
Repository revision: 4bd6e39c01ebdc815a5d0670922a827295766677
Windowing system distributor 'Microsoft Corp.', version 10.0.16288
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Message #10 received at 28508-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Fabrice Popineau <fabrice.popineau <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 28508-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: 26.0.60; Problem with mkdir() on root drive (ms-windows)
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 01:50:59 -0700

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Thanks for reporting that. I installed the attached patch into the emacs-26 branch.

[0001-Fix-bug-with-make-directory-on-MS-Windows-root.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

Message #13 received at 28508 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 28508 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, fabrice.popineau <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#28508: 26.0.60;
 Problem with mkdir() on root drive (ms-windows)
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 19:40:11 +0300

> From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 01:50:59 -0700
> Cc: 28508-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Thanks for reporting that. I installed the attached patch into the emacs-26 branch.

Thanks, the problem is fixed now on my system.

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