Re: Curious permission problem

[Michael Albinus]

Ole Laursen <address@hidden> writes:

>> Tramp's behaviour is consistent with the local file case. Assumed, you
>> have a local file with "---xrwxr--" permissions, owned by root. You can
>> open it, but when you try to save modifications, you get a similar error
>> by Emacs.
>
> I just tested this, and this is not in agreement with what I'm
> experiencing.

You're right, I've mistaken a test file (it was not owned by my group).

I've committed a patch, which shall also handle this case for remote
files. Available in the Tramp and Emacs repositories, and with the next
Emacs pretest (23.1.93, announced for Friday).

Best regards, Michael.