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* Re: Parent of cache directory read-only
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@ 1995-12-13 17:30     ` The Gnus Bugfixing Girls + Boys
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Pekka Marjola <marjola@trshp.ntc.nokia.com> writes:

> >> Signalling: (file-error "Opening directory" "permission denied" "/user")
> >> directory-files("..")
> >> gnus-cache-generate-active("..")
> 
> Lars> Hm.  Then you should set `gnus-use-cache' to nil, since gnus-cache
> Lars> really does have to write to the cache directory to work now.
> 
> Certainly I won't, since caching is so useful. Of course, the cache
> directory (set to (expand-file-name "~/News/gnus-cache")) is readable
> and writable, but /user is not readable. 0.18 had no such
> problems...

Sorry; I didn't notice that it was traversing up directories (".."),
which is a bug.  This problem should be gone in September 0.22.

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