Re: "make dist" does not include some Gnulib files

2017-11-18 Thread Bruno Haible
John Zaitseff asked on 2017-05-23: > Now only one file is not included in the generated archive: > >m4/gnulib-tool.m4 > > I'm guessing that that file is not needed for actual building? Is > it a temporary file used by gnulib-tool and thus should be ignored > and treated as a build file only?

Re: Fwd: bug#27269: Sed --in-place is messing NTFS file permissions

2017-11-18 Thread Paul Eggert
Assaf Gordon wrote: set_permissions uses the USE_ACL #define to either call "set_acls" or call chmod/fchmod directly [4]. It vaguely sounds like a Gnulib bug if set_permissions isn't calling set_acls when it should. However, your summary of what goes wrong is a bit sketchy; I can't tell which

Re: Fwd: bug#27269: Sed --in-place is messing NTFS file permissions

2017-11-18 Thread Assaf Gordon
Hi Paul, On 2017-11-18 03:46 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: Assaf Gordon wrote: set_permissions uses the USE_ACL #define to either call "set_acls" or call chmod/fchmod directly [4]. It vaguely sounds like a Gnulib bug if set_permissions isn't calling set_acls when it should. However, your summary of

Re: Fwd: bug#27269: Sed --in-place is messing NTFS file permissions

2017-11-18 Thread Paul Eggert
Assaf Gordon wrote: acl_set_fd returns 0, but didn't actually set the permissions: This sounds like a bug inside the kernel then, in the ntfs code presumably. Perhaps we could work around the bug in Gnulib, but that sounds a bit expensive.