Re: 23.0.60; uid problems on w32

[Stefan Monnier]

>> 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.

Are you sure?  (+ 50830 14706) == 65536, so the two numbers are
equal module 2^16.  I.e. one is "signed int16" and the other is
"unsigned int16".


        Stefan