Re: Tramp and VC integration: "calling user"

[Kai Großjohann]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>> Well, hm.  What happens if we are in the same group, I check out the
>> file, it becomes group-writable, then you try to edit it?  (I have no
>> idea whether a file could become group-writable on checkout, though.)
>
>> Perhaps Andre needs to chime in here...
>
> Hmm... actually I can't seem to find the code where the problem shows up.
> IIUC the advice you're talking about is on vc-user-login-name which is only
> really used in vc-rcs.el, but even there I can't see in what way Tramp's
> advice is needed.

Maybe part of the difficulty is that Tramp's advice is bogus, as I can
now see.  Tramp looks at the owner of the file, that's wrong.

Kai