GNU bug report logs - #865
23.0.60; The directory is unsafe today

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 16:10:05 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 3281, 4197, 8787

Found in version 23.3

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 865 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Jason Rumney <jasonr <at> gnu.org>,
        emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#865: 23.0.60; The directory is unsafe today
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
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