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bug#37884: 27.0.50; Cannot write to a file in VirtualBox shared director
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#37884: 27.0.50; Cannot write to a file in VirtualBox shared directory |
Date: |
Thu, 31 Oct 2019 16:37:26 +0200 |
> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:38:59 +0100
> Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, bernardo.bacic@pobox.com
>
> Paul> In contrast, Bernardo's suggestion is
> Paul> simpler, involves no extra system calls (or machine instructions,
> for
> Paul> that matter), and has been tested. So I installed the attached patch
> Paul> to implement and document the workaround, and am optimistically
> Paul> closing the bug report.
>
> Looks good to me. I was trying to avoid that, since I thought there
> was a strong desire to keep the file read-only, otherwise why bother
> with the fchmod in the first place?
Exactly my line of reasoning.
But if there's no special reason to have that file unwritable, then a
simpler change is of course better.
- bug#37884: 27.0.50; Cannot write to a file in VirtualBox shared directory, (continued)
- bug#37884: 27.0.50; Cannot write to a file in VirtualBox shared directory, Bernardo, 2019/10/28
- bug#37884: 27.0.50; Cannot write to a file in VirtualBox shared directory, Robert Pluim, 2019/10/28
- bug#37884: 27.0.50; Cannot write to a file in VirtualBox shared directory, Bernardo, 2019/10/29
- bug#37884: 27.0.50; Cannot write to a file in VirtualBox shared directory, Andreas Schwab, 2019/10/29
- bug#37884: 27.0.50; Cannot write to a file in VirtualBox shared directory, Robert Pluim, 2019/10/29
- bug#37884: 27.0.50; Cannot write to a file in VirtualBox shared directory, Bernardo, 2019/10/30
- bug#37884: 27.0.50; Cannot write to a file in VirtualBox shared directory, Robert Pluim, 2019/10/30
- bug#37884: 27.0.50; Cannot write to a file in VirtualBox shared directory, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/10/30
- bug#37884: 27.0.50; Cannot write to a file in VirtualBox shared directory, Paul Eggert, 2019/10/30
- bug#37884: 27.0.50; Cannot write to a file in VirtualBox shared directory, Robert Pluim, 2019/10/31
- bug#37884: 27.0.50; Cannot write to a file in VirtualBox shared directory,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#37884: 27.0.50; Cannot write to a file in VirtualBox shared directory, Paul Eggert, 2019/10/31