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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Message #195 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

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: Re: bug#865: 23.0.60; The directory is unsafe today
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:05:43 -0400

> If you really want to make sure no one else can write you have to set up
> the access rights for that. On w32 that means you should modify the ACL
> list. The current code is far from that.

The current code "does just that" using file-modes.
Now, of course, depending on how file-modes are mapped to&from ACLs,
this may DTRT or not.


        Stefan
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