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23.0.60; The directory is unsafe today

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From: "Lennart Borgman" <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
To: "Jason Rumney" <jasonr <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 865 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz <at> gnu.org>,
        emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#865: 23.0.60; The directory is unsafe today
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 17:16:46 +0200

On 9/5/08, Jason Rumney <jasonr <at> gnu.org> wrote:
> Lennart Borgman wrote:
> > I thought that perhaps a workaround would be to changed the owner so I
> tested.
> >
> > I did a test on the directory where I had trouble. I did something like
> >
> >  (set-file-modes "serv2" ?\654)
> >
> >
>
> set-file-modes is just a wrapper for the chmod system function. On Windows,
> the chmod system function ignores all fields in the bitmask except the owner
> read and write flags, which it maps to the DOS readonly flag on files.

Thanks. But then we can not make very much on w32, can we?

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