Bug#691247: mime-support: Useless permission checks in see

2013-11-28 Thread Kevin Ryde
Charles Plessy writes: > > Do you think you could prepare a patch ? For the "-r" checks on mime.types and .mailcap I suggest something like below. It would be unusual for them to be crazy, but the general principle applies there too that "-r" is either useless, a race condition, or pre-empts wha

Bug#691247: mime-support: Useless permission checks in see

2013-11-22 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 11:09:52PM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : > Le Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 03:06:38PM +0200, Martin Mares a écrit : > > > > When I run `see' on a file, I get `Error: no read permission for file > > "XXX"', > > although the file is perfectly readable. > > Do you think you could

Bug#691247: mime-support: Useless permission checks in see

2012-10-23 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 03:06:38PM +0200, Martin Mares a écrit : > > When I run `see' on a file, I get `Error: no read permission for file "XXX"', > although the file is perfectly readable. > > This happens for example when the file in question is located in a directory > mounted by sshfs. Permis

Bug#691247: mime-support: Useless permission checks in see

2012-10-23 Thread Martin Mares
Package: mime-support Version: 3.52-1 Severity: normal When I run `see' on a file, I get `Error: no read permission for file "XXX"', although the file is perfectly readable. This happens for example when the file in question is located in a directory mounted by sshfs. Permissions reported by stat