RE: [Bug: 21.4.20] find file on nonwritable file creates writable buffer

I have to say that I'm not a great enthusiast for the old, nasty, read-only attribute bit. I'm thinking that my code only checks it if it can't see the ACL, and now it dawns on me that, even if all is well in ACL-reading land, we still have to check it. -----Original Message----- From: xemacs-beta-bounces(a)xemacs.org [mailto:xemacs-beta-bounces＠xemacs.org] On Behalf Of Stephen J. Turnbull Sent: Monday, December 25, 2006 1:59 AM To: Aaron Stambler Cc: xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org Subject: [Bug: 21.4.20] find file on nonwritable file creates writable buffer Aaron Stambler writes: in Thank you for your report. This is due to differences between the Windows model of file permissions and the Unix model. We're trying to adjust things, but it's difficult. The underlying code has long made the assumption that Unix permissions, whether read from a Unix file system or inferred from Windows file metadata, will be enforced by the OS. This is not true under Windows, and synchronizing XEmacs's idea of what access it has to a file to what access it actually has is something of a trial and error process. I'll make sure the people who are working on this are aware of your report, but what with the holidays it may be a week or so before any progress is visible. _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta