Re: 23.0.60; uid problems on w32

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 23:09:07 +0100
>> From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden>
>> Cc:
>>
>> I have got at bug report from Thierry Daucourt through
>>
>>    http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/EmacsW32
>
> Please ask that user to report problems here and participate in this
> discussion.  I don't have access to a Windows box where UID is such a
> large number, and talking through an intermediary is very inefficient.

I have asked him on the web page to join.

>> 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**
>
> Which versions of src/w32.c and src/dired.c were used in the build of
> EmacsW32 that this user used?  There were changes made there recently,
> so it's important to know precisely what code was used.

Emacs 23 from CVS checked out 2008-03-25 built with gcc (downloaded from 
my site, built with gcc).

>> He also checked with Cygwin which gave other values than the two
>> different above for the uid:
>>
>>   $ ls -ld server/
>>   drwxr-xr-x+ 2 my_user mkgroup-l-d 0 Mar 29 14:35 server/
>>   $ id
>>   uid=**60830**(my_user) gid=10545(mkgroup-l-d)
>> groups=0(root),544(Administrators),545(Users),10545(mkgroup-l-d)
>
> What do you mean by ``also checked with Cygwin''?  Does it mean he
> checked with Cygwin build of Emacs, or just that `ls' and `id' used
> above were Cygwin builds?

No other Emacs is involved than the one above. ls and id are Cygwin builds.