[darcs-users] Re: diff-command in defaults fails -> setCurrentDirectory problem?

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

David Roundy writes:

 > > $ darcs diff
 > > Running command 'smartsynchronize old-foo4/ new-foo4/'
 > > darcs.exe: darcs90a184: removeFile: permission denied (Permission
 > > denied) 
 > > 
 > > Is there a simple solution for this?
 > 
 > This is almost certainly a windows-specific bug... you are running either
 > windows or on a samba share, I presume? Windows has some funky filesystem
 > semantics which are darned inconvenient.

Here is a thread where we had to deal with Windows permissions issues
in XEmacs.  The first is the problem report, the second two are the
bug fix (the latter is in C code, but presumably people here can still
read C code if really necessary :-).

http://calypso.tux.org/pipermail/xemacs-beta/2006-November/000230.html
http://calypso.tux.org/pipermail/xemacs-patches/2006-November/000102.html
http://calypso.tux.org/pipermail/xemacs-patches/2006-November/000109.html

I don't know if it's the same issue, but may be of use to somebody
with some expertise.