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

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:34:58 -0400

> set-file-modes is only very crudely emulated on Windows.  In a
> nutshell, the underlying primitive _chmod only considers the high 3
> bits of the argument you pass to set-file-modes.

So I guess that's pretty much the source of the problem (modulo the
fact that we set default-file-modes rather than calling set-file-modes).

        Stefan