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

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>,
        865 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#865: 23.0.60; The directory is unsafe today
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:34:58 -0400

> set-file-modes is only very crudely emulated on Windows.  In a
> nutshell, the underlying primitive _chmod only considers the high 3
> bits of the argument you pass to set-file-modes.

So I guess that's pretty much the source of the problem (modulo the
fact that we set default-file-modes rather than calling set-file-modes).


        Stefan
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