[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
bug#819: 23.0.60; group and owner "Everyone" - what's that about?
From: |
Drew Adams |
Subject: |
bug#819: 23.0.60; group and owner "Everyone" - what's that about? |
Date: |
Sat, 30 Aug 2008 06:55:15 -0700 |
> OK, I think I know what is going on. You are using an Emacs 23 binary
> that was built before Aug 15 this year, right?
Yes, August 1, 2008.
> If so, there was a bug in the code back then which would manifest
> itself when w32-get-true-file-attributes was at its default value
> `local'. The bug would cause Emacs to think that every file except
> the root directory on each local drive was not local, and therefore
> Emacs would not try to retrieve the file's security descriptor and
> glean the owner and group from that. Instead, Emacs would fall back
> on attributing each file to the user who runs Emacs.
>
> This is why you see the root directory owned by "Everyone", while the
> rest of files are not.
>
> To see if my theory is right, either install a binary built after Aug
> 15, or set w32-get-true-file-attributes to t and do a Dired on C:\.
> If I'm right, you will see each and every file attributed to Everyone,
> like I'd expect on a FAT32 volume.
Bravo! Gagne. That was it - setting w32-get-true-file-attributes to t shows
Everyone everywhere. Thanks for tracking this down. Sorry I didn't have a more
recent build; it would have saved a bug report and your debugging time.
- bug#819: 23.0.60; group and owner "Everyone" - what's that about?, (continued)
- bug#819: 23.0.60; group and owner "Everyone" - what's that about?, Jason Rumney, 2008/08/29
- bug#819: 23.0.60; group and owner "Everyone" - what's that about?, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/08/29
- bug#819: 23.0.60; group and owner "Everyone" - what's that about?, Drew Adams, 2008/08/29
- bug#819: 23.0.60; group and owner "Everyone" - what's that about?, Stefan Monnier, 2008/08/29
- bug#819: 23.0.60; group and owner "Everyone" - what's that about?, Jason Rumney, 2008/08/29
- bug#819: 23.0.60; group and owner "Everyone" - what's that about?, Drew Adams, 2008/08/29
- bug#819: 23.0.60; group and owner "Everyone" - what's that about?, Jason Rumney, 2008/08/29
- bug#819: 23.0.60; group and owner "Everyone" - what's that about?, Drew Adams, 2008/08/29
- bug#819: 23.0.60; group and owner "Everyone" - what's that about?, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/08/30
- bug#819: 23.0.60; group and owner "Everyone" - what's that about?, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/08/30
- bug#819: 23.0.60; group and owner "Everyone" - what's that about?,
Drew Adams <=
- bug#819: 23.0.60; group and owner "Everyone" - what's that about?, Drew Adams, 2008/08/30
- bug#819: 23.0.60; group and owner "Everyone" - what's that about?, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/08/30
- bug#819: 23.0.60; group and owner "Everyone" - what's that about?, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/08/30
bug#819: marked as done (23.0.60; group and owner "Everyone" - what's that about?), Emacs bug Tracking System, 2008/08/29
Message not available