From: Jesper Harder <harder@ifa.au.dk>
Subject: Re: Patch for filesystems that do not support chmod.
Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 15:26:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3k6z8o8ek.fsf@defun.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <r99smdwefy1.fsf@barney-xp.cs.cornell.edu> (Paul Stodghill's message of "Wed, 19 May 2004 08:53:26 -0400")
Paul Stodghill <stodghil@cs.cornell.edu> writes:
> I store all of my Gnus files on a FAT32 filesystem so that I can
> share them between Windows and Linux on my dual-boot system.
> Unfortunately, Cygwin (Linux too, I think) does not provide a
> complete implementation of chmod for FAT32 filesystems. As a result,
> Gnus's calls to `set-file-modes' will likely fail.
It's not clear to me whether you're saying that `set-file-modes'
actually throws an error or you think it _might_ throw an error.
But if it does, I'd tend to think it's a bug in XEmacs, which it would
be bette to fix there instead of in Gnus.
--
Jesper Harder <http://purl.org/harder/>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-19 13:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-19 12:53 Paul Stodghill
2004-05-19 13:26 ` Jesper Harder [this message]
2004-05-19 23:39 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2004-05-20 1:08 ` Jesper Harder
2004-05-20 16:43 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2004-05-20 17:08 ` Paul Stodghill
2004-05-20 17:28 ` Paul Stodghill
2004-05-20 23:40 ` Jon Ericson
2004-05-22 23:29 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2004-05-20 19:58 ` Jesper Harder
2004-05-20 17:04 ` Paul Stodghill
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