bug#865: 23.0.60; The directory is unsafe today

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 17:16:46 +0200
> From: "Lennart Borgman" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
> Cc: 865@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com, "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>, 
>       emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org
> 
> On 9/5/08, Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org> wrote:
> > Lennart Borgman wrote:
> > > I thought that perhaps a workaround would be to changed the owner so I
> > tested.
> > >
> > > I did a test on the directory where I had trouble. I did something like
> > >
> > >  (set-file-modes "serv2" ?\654)
> > >
> > >
> >
> > set-file-modes is just a wrapper for the chmod system function. On Windows,
> > the chmod system function ignores all fields in the bitmask except the owner
> > read and write flags, which it maps to the DOS readonly flag on files.
> 
> Thanks. But then we can not make very much on w32, can we?

Of course, we can.  We just need to use native NT security APIs, not
the emulated Posix ones.