Re: 23.0.60; uid problems on w32

[Jason Rumney]

Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:
> I have got at bug report from Thierry Daucourt through
>
>   http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/EmacsW32
>
> 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**

It appears the directory in question was created by a different user.
Do you have the original report? There may be more information in there.

> He also checked with Cygwin which gave other values than the two 
> different above for the uid:

I've got no idea what Cygwin does to emulate posix uids on Windows, so 
it is not surprising that it gets different results.