Subject: bug#865: 23.0.60; The directory is unsafe today

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:29:00 -0400

> I can see what you want to achieve, but why not just check with
> file-writeable-p here? Is not that more correct?

The purpose of the check is not to make sure we can make the server
work, but that it is safe to do so.  I.e. it doesn't check that we have
write access, but that nobody else does.

        Stefan