RE: XEmacs 21.4.19: Problem with customized folders on Windows XP
Can you point me at some description of how to get off the ground as an
XEmacs contributor.
-----Original Message-----
From: stephen(a)xemacs.org [mailto:stephenï¼ xemacs.org]
Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2006 11:15 PM
To: Benson Margulies
Cc: tony(a)tigerheron.com; XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org
Subject: RE: XEmacs 21.4.19: Problem with customized folders on Windows
XP
Benson Margulies writes:
I've never seen any program other than xemacs pay any attention
to
the
read-only attribute on a Windows directory. I suspect that XEmacs is
manually checking the bit. Given the complexity of ACLS, XEmacs needs
to
just go ahead and try to write to the directory and see what comes
back,
or learn to use the API that asks 'do I have effective Write
access'.
Looking at the flag is only causing confusion.
We have both native and Cygwin implementations, and currently no
active experienced Windows developers. Patches would be welcome.
Vague specifications that say "this is hard" ;-) will be ignored by me
for sure (I don't even have a working Windows system at the moment),
and probably by the project for lack of skills.
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