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-rw-r--r--lisp/vc.el9
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/vc.el b/lisp/vc.el
index 7b688ea8694..635b0298c00 100644
--- a/lisp/vc.el
+++ b/lisp/vc.el
@@ -1353,17 +1353,18 @@ Return nil if there is no such person."
;; control and has -rw-r--r-- is locked by its owner. This is true
;; for both RCS and SCCS, which keep unlocked files at -r--r--r--.
;; We have to be careful not to exclude files with execute bits on;
- ;; scripts can be under version control too. The advantage of this
- ;; hack is that calls to the very expensive vc-fetch-properties
+ ;; scripts can be under version control too. Also, we must ignore
+ ;; the group-read and other-read bits, since paranoid users turn them off.
+ ;; This hack wins because calls to the very expensive vc-fetch-properties
;; function only have to be made if (a) the file is locked by someone
;; other than the current user, or (b) some untoward manipulation
;; behind vc's back has changed the owner or the `group' or `other'
;; write bits.
(let ((attributes (file-attributes file)))
- (cond ((string-match ".r-.r-.r-." (nth 8 attributes))
+ (cond ((string-match ".r-..-..-." (nth 8 attributes))
nil)
((and (= (nth 2 attributes) (user-uid))
- (string-match ".rw.r-.r-." (nth 8 attributes)))
+ (string-match ".rw..-..-." (nth 8 attributes)))
(user-login-name))
(t
(vc-true-locking-user file))))))