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Re: copy-directory


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: copy-directory
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2009 12:41:59 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux)

> Please don't rely on the `chown' command being available for the
> preserve-uid-gid option.

Especially since chown only works for root anyway, and since I don't
think we should cater specially for root-uses of Emacs (I rather
discourage the use of Emacs when running as root), I'd rather we don't
touch the uid.


        Stefan




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