GNU bug report logs - #37884
27.0.50; Cannot write to a file in VirtualBox shared directory

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Bernardo <bernardo.bacic <at> pobox.com>

Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 10:29:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 27.0.50

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #17 received at 37884 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 37884 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, bernardo.bacic <at> pobox.com
Subject: Re: bug#37884: 27.0.50; Cannot write to a file in VirtualBox shared
 directory
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2019 17:01:11 +0100

>>>>> On Sun, 27 Oct 2019 17:52:39 +0200, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> said:

    >> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
    >> Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2019 16:34:54 +0100
    >> Cc: 37884 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
    >> 
    >> Eli, if the results come back that using 0664 or similar on lockfiles
    >> resolves this, would you be amenable to such a change?

    Eli> I'm not sure I understand the proposal.  Is the suggestion to chmod
    Eli> the file to 0644 before calling unlink?

Yes, although of course this is assuming it works, one other option
could be to just not mess with the file's permissions at all when
initially creating the lockfile.

Robert
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