From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/57558 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Patch for filesystems that do not support chmod. Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 01:39:50 +0200 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen 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 1085010181 2306 80.91.224.253 (19 May 2004 23:43:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 23:43:01 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M6098@lists.math.uh.edu Thu May 20 01:42:54 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 1BQai6-0008Po-00 for ; Thu, 20 May 2004 01:42:54 +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 1BQahu-0004Ek-00; Wed, 19 May 2004 18:42:42 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1BQahn-0004EU-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 19 May 2004 18:42:35 -0500 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BQahn-0006dW-95 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 19 May 2004 18:42:35 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C9C93A01F3 for ; Wed, 19 May 2004 18:42:34 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from root by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BQahl-0002IA-00 for ; Thu, 20 May 2004 01:42:33 +0200 Original-Received: from quimbies.gnus.org ([80.91.231.2]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 20 May 2004 01:42:33 +0200 Original-Received: from larsi by quimbies.gnus.org with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 20 May 2004 01:42:33 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: quimbies.gnus.org Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: Coil's _Unnatural History III_: "Lost Rivers of London (1996)" Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAgMAAAAqbBEUAAAADFBMVEWpnpEtFRaAZ1piQzwY L1yZAAACOUlEQVR4nBWST2jTUBzHf6agod3oyXtRBiOdCwiDXaRD8O5haYfUxKNMhl7GxLE0TARJ /HcJeBCsFSG8YNvTVqpLgidxDA8Smeyw0YFsb7IWx6gka37+evzwfe/7+30eDxSlypKevIW/kggU xWFRkPmuDbbToIZ1IwlSA21pVoSyfd+pBxlcUHcmoBiydrYpN0bVvwglRWKCf1Ae3XERZsO0Ibid 8pX5BlJBThSYWx41HQvmwmoaBHcu47QZFTjiuMQf5tfGBdDsVhqykT61+FQGTQERxHdRIY4cKjBF Q7xanYxeNUG1+SeAtvViyX9AgIkB7cnulvd6uA7uAUgsddejDUy8KUKtKs2tE7BTXQST2QSK4jaS NKT4tXofinZj1aOFWnl3AUq2Z/jMuHTGOiqZejA4gEtJvrNMx/4xz+fRwI0fQTnsCX1/qXNqoA6z 9p5Q8fD9IDi6B4ptttHrdjer1hdQFauP9V2sOPk/pOAiNvCnn6ttU5uMnCHq0wInONeNVnfHytPC ChQvWmaXbT7RJyghhcfs4+GN6Bmkac5vU/5h1ZsjBMVQr+HJsdQcF2VKErd32ZRy0yNZUvhcmMll uNGbyFP1m7EZweJBa1Ii7bUPqVXkRgEZQfQ8u186cn16XkXZ9y+4tzlHvkd39vEl24i/YuIQxDHy qcMg0Ydwcoat8xtBUhnCdfJJhzOVRU5D5xl+k/t3Viq3KKm5GKz3teUTdfiRCpGrYbwblwjaBbah 4XH4tvQfGNQ96sBB27gAAAAASUVORK5CYII= User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:WAqbp53GCNI37LV2ra5FJKu79fA= Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:57558 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:57558 Jesper Harder writes: > 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. Hm... I'm not sure. Would it be better for the chmod to fail silently on some OS-es than letting the user control this explicitly and be made aware of the issue? -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen