Re: Signaling an error while saving files due to file-extended-attributes

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2020 13:23:03 -0700
> 
> On 9/29/20 10:14 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > So maybe some kind of warning and confirmation request is in order?
> > And perhaps a way of disabling the extended attributes for files under
> > directories from some list?
> 
> A warning and confirmation request would be fine, I'd think. For completeness 
> it 
> should apply to both the less-problematic file-modes and the more-problematic 
> file-extended-attributes.  A programmatic way should also be OK, though we 
> would 
> need to warn people against doing it casually as it can botch security.

OK, I filed a feature request bug report about this.