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23.0.60; The directory is unsafe today

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
Cc: jasonr <at> gnu.org, 865 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#865: 23.0.60; The directory is unsafe today
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:13:02 +0300

> Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 17:16:46 +0200
> From: "Lennart Borgman" <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
> Cc: 865 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com, "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 
> 	emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
> 
> 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?

Of course, we can.  We just need to use native NT security APIs, not
the emulated Posix ones.

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