From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/57529 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jesper Harder Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Patch for filesystems that do not support chmod. Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 15:26:11 +0200 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1084973457 9351 80.91.224.253 (19 May 2004 13:30:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 13:30:57 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M6069@lists.math.uh.edu Wed May 19 15:30:26 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BQR9N-00053c-00 for ; Wed, 19 May 2004 15:30:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1BQR94-0000Rj-00; Wed, 19 May 2004 08:30:06 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1BQR8v-0000RZ-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 19 May 2004 08:29:57 -0500 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BQR8u-00059b-0f for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 19 May 2004 08:29:56 -0500 Original-Received: from pfepc.post.tele.dk (pfepc.post.tele.dk [195.41.46.237]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF8603A0232 for ; Wed, 19 May 2004 08:29:54 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from [195.215.224.218] (0xc3d7e0da.esnxr4.ras.tele.dk [195.215.224.218]) by pfepc.post.tele.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC6DD26284F for ; Wed, 19 May 2004 15:29:52 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Paul Stodghill's message of "Wed, 19 May 2004 08:53:26 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:57529 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:57529 Paul Stodghill 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