Re: 23.0.60; uid problems on w32

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Jason Rumney wrote:
> Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:
> > I have got at bug report from Thierry Daucourt through
> >
> >   http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/EmacsW32
> >
> > It looks like this could be a bug in Emacs. The crucial part of that 
> > bug report are the values investigated at the end of 
> > `server-ensure-safe-dir' where the user get the following for 
> > file-attributes and user-id:
> >
> >  attrs (t 1 -14706 513 (18414 17797) (18414 17797) (18414 17797) 0 
> > drwxrwxrwx
> >  nil 34842 (7173 . 33003))
> >  nth 2 attrs **-14706**
> >  user id **50830**
>
> It appears the directory in question was created by a different user.
> Do you have the original report? There may be more information in there.

This is what I got at the moment. I have asked for what Windows Explorer 
shows too. If you want more information please see the web page.

> > He also checked with Cygwin which gave other values than the two 
> > different above for the uid:
>
> I've got no idea what Cygwin does to emulate posix uids on Windows, so 
> it is not surprising that it gets different results.

I tested with Cygwin on my pc and it looks like expected there. All uid 
values are equal: (nth 2 attrs), (user-uid) in server-ensure-safe-dir 
and the output from cygwin id. ls -l shows the same name as cygwin id.