On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 23:10 -0500, Richard Stallman wrote: > (1) New file operation file-mine-p, returns true if the file is owned > by the "calling user". For non-special files, the calling user is > the user who invoked Emacs. For Tramp files, the calling user is > the user logged into the remote host. > > (2) New file operation file-calling-user, returns the calling user, as > defined in (1). > > (3) Augment the return value of file-remote-p to indicate the calling > user. The return value could be augmented to also indicate the > remote host, if the file is remote. > > #3 seems kludgy, so it shouldn't be that. I prefer #1.
But #1 is in fact wrong. It is irrelevant who the owner of the file is (the same argument as I made concerning file-writable-p). What must be tested is whether the name of the locking user, as recorded in the RCS master file, is that of the calling user. I still think #2 is the best way to achieve this. _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
