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

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>,
        865 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: jasonr <at> gnu.org, emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#865: 23.0.60; The directory is unsafe today
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:41:44 +0300

> Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:06:56 +0200
> From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
> Cc: emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org, 865 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
> 
> why not just check with file-writeable-p here?

Don't forget that on Windows, almost every file is writable.  You
don't want everybody and their dog to be able to look at your server
directory, do you?

IOW, this test is not about being able to write to a directory, it's
about keeping your private data private.
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