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

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Francis Litterio <flitterio <at> gmail.com>, 865 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#865: 23.0.60; The directory is unsafe today
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:40:00 +0300

> From: Francis Litterio <flitterio <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:56:39 -0400
> Cc: 
> 
> Could a Windows file owned by a group be mapped to POSIX by showing the
> Windows group as the POSIX group owner and a pseudo-user (e.g., nobody,
> root, emacs) as the user owner?

How will this help the following code work on Windows, when the owner
of the file is reported as the Administrators group (whose ID is 544),
and the UID of the user who created the file is different (because she
belongs to the local admins group)?

  (or (eql (nth 2 (file-attributes FILE)) (user-uid))
      (scream-bloody-murder))

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