Re: tramp (2.0.52); Saving files changes ownership

[Michael Albinus]

Sascha Wilde <address@hidden> writes:

>> Tramp 2.1.11 respects now the parameter PRESERVE-UID-GID of `copy-file'.
>> Does the following patch (files.el in Emacs trunk) help?
>
> No, at a quick test it didn't.  I applied your patch (assuming it were
> an revert patch), reevaluated backup-buffer-copy, visited and saved a
> remote file, but with the same result, the group was changed...

Indeed. In fileio.c, Fcopy_buffer calls the file name handler without
preserve-uid-and-gid.

I've committed the patches for files.el and fileio.c to the Emacs
trunk. Could you, please, test it?

> cheers
> sascha

Best regards, Michael.