Samba and XEmacs and read-only

[Aidan Kehoe]

 Ar an dara lá de mí Eanair, scríobh Stephen J. Turnbull: 

 > There is a known problem where past versions of XEmacs attempted to
 > emulate Unix semantics for permission, but it turns out that Windows
 > has a different enough model that it's essentially impossible.  A
 > number of patches were applied to XEmacs 21.5.28 and I believe to
 > 21.4.20 or .21 to improve the situation, and since then yours is the
 > first report I've seen.

Not quite; even when Benson Margulies who did the work was around, I don't
think this was ever in a state where we were free of problem reports.
Certainly we've had this issue as long as I've been at my current workplace
and that's eighteen months or so now.

Here's a workaround, to add to one's ~/.xemacs/init.el . 

(progn
  (fset #'file-readable-p #'(lambda (filename) t))
  (fset #'file-writable-p #'(lambda (filename) t)))

There was a proposed patch along the same lines before Benson showed up--I
think we should seriously consider something of the sort.

 > I don't do Windows, so if it *is* Windows-related you'll have to wait
 > until the Windows guys get back from skiing or whatever.
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