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bug#13125: Fix permissions bugs with setgid directories etc.


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: bug#13125: Fix permissions bugs with setgid directories etc.
Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2012 23:26:27 -0800
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On 12/08/2012 07:54 PM, Chong Yidong wrote:
> Have you actually done a survey of all the callers to file-attributes to
> see if this is true?

Yes, all the callers that are distributed as part of Emacs.

>> > Instead, the patch moves this functionality to
>> > file-ownership-preserved-p via a new argument GROUP.
> Why can't this functionality be kept in file-attributes?

Performance.  The functionality requires statting the parent directory
for each call to file-attributes.





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