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Re: Recursive copies in Dired do not preserve directory permissions


From: Jason Rumney
Subject: Re: Recursive copies in Dired do not preserve directory permissions
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:23:40 +0000
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Did someone verify that (set-file-modes FOO #o700) works on MS-Windows
> when FOO is a directory?  If not, it's not safe to install this on the
> Emacs 22 branch.
>   

It doesn't cause an error, if that was what you meant.

set-file-modes uses the system library's _chmod function, which only
works on files on Windows, and only the owner write permission has any
effect.





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