Re: Emacs on Windows keeps complaining: the directory ... is unsafe.

[Óscar Fuentes]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

> 544 is the uid of the Administrators group.  Files created by the user
> Administrator are frequently seen on Windows as owned by the
> Administrators group, not by the user Administrator.
>
> But since recreating that directory from Emacs had the directory
> attributed to the user Administrator (uid = 500), perhaps the owner
> Windows records depends on how the directory is created.  Can you
> experiment with different ways of creating directories, like from the
> Windows shell, from Explorer, with the Emacs make-directory function,
> and tell the results?

  drwxrwxrwx  1 Administrators None           0 05-26 16:16 explorer
  drwxrwxrwx  1 Administrator  None           0 05-26 16:17 make-directory
  drwxrwxrwx  1 Administrators None           0 05-26 16:17 mkdir_cmd_shell
  drwxrwxrwx  1 Administrator  None           0 05-26 16:16 mkdir_cygwin_bash
  drwxrwxrwx  1 Administrator  None           0 05-26 16:17 mkdir_eshell
  drwxrwxrwx  1 Administrators None           0 05-26 16:26 mkdir_msys_bash

so Explorer and the CMD shell assigns ownership to Administrators, while
cygwin and Emacs assigns ownership to Administrator. MSYS, which, as you
know, is a fork of cygwin, assigns ownership to Administrators.

Emacs is the fully native one and does not use cygwin's shell nor MSYS
shell.

This is on Windows 2000 Professional SP4.

-- 
Óscar