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23.0.60; The directory is unsafe today

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Message #235 received at 865 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Jason Rumney <jasonr <at> gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 865 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#865: 23.0.60; The directory is unsafe today
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 07:44:49 +0800

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> Sorry, I confused myself and thought about a different parameter.
>
> Yes, the last argument of LookupAccountSid does tell what type of
> account is that.  But I'm not sure that what you suggest is a good
> strategy: the fact that the current user is a member of Administrators
> does not yet mean we can report that user as the file's owner.
>
> How about testing the user's primary group in addition to UID?  That
> is, 
>
>   (or (eql (nth 2 attrs) (user-uid))
>       (and (eq system-type 'windows-nt) (eql (nth 2 attrs) (user-gid)))
>   

I am trying to find a solution that will work without Lisp coders 
needing to be aware of the strange situation on Windows that files can 
be owned by a group.

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