133225 - Home directory isn't viewed.

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Theo Jakobus]

The standard user starts MOZILLA from home directory defined by the logical
SYS$LOGIN, this logical points to a directory, for instance my SYS$LOGIN is:
$ SHOW LOGICAL SYS$LOGIN   "SYS$LOGIN" = "PL_DISK:[JAKOBUS]"
My home directory is the file JAKOBUS.DIR which is owned by myself, the
protection for this file is: (SYSTEM:RWED,OWNER:RWED,GROUP:RE,WORLD:E).
If I want to save something in my home directory using "Save Page As..." MOZILLA
opens the "Save As" window and shows the message:
"You do not have the permissions necessary to view this directory" so the
directory isn't shown although I have all rights.

Comment 1

[Colin Blake]

This is VMS specific. Taking...

Comment 2

[Colin Blake]

Can you search your prefs.js file for "browser.download.dir", and then do a 
DIR/SEC for whatever *directory* is shown. So if "browser.download.dir" is
/pl_disk/jakobus then I want to see the output for
DIR/SEC PL_DISK:[000000]JAKOBUS.DIR

Comment 3

[Theo Jakobus]

Searching my prefs.js shows:
user_pref("browser.download.dir", "/sys$login");

show logical SYS$LOGIN
   "SYS$LOGIN" = "PL_DISK:[JAKOBUS]"   (LNM$JOB_8109C440)

$ DIR/SEC PL_DISK:[000000]JAKOBUS.DIR

Directory PL_DISK:[000000]

JAKOBUS.DIR;1        [PL,JAKOBUS]                     (RWED,RWED,RE,E)


$ show logical PL_DISK
   "PL_DISK" = "IAF021$DKA400:[IAF.PL.]"   (LNM$SYSTEM_TABLE)
$
$ DIR/SEC IAF021$DKA400:[IAF]PL.DIR

Directory IAF021$DKA600:[IAF]

PL.DIR;1             [SYSTEM]                         (RWE,RWE,RE,E)


Colin we use the logicals heavily.

Comment 4

[Colin Blake]

I bet if you type "/pl_disk/jakobus" into the file name field of the "save page 
as" dialog box, and hit return, that you'll see the contents of your SYS$LOGIN 
directory and you'll be able to save the page.

Comment 5

[Colin Blake]

> user_pref("browser.download.dir", "/sys$login");

This is the problem. I don't know how it got in there, but its wrong. Delete 
that line, and it should work just fine.

Comment 6

[Colin Blake]

Theo, if after deleting the "browser.download.dir" line from your prefs file you 
are still seeing a problem, please re-open this bug report.

Closing.

Comment 7

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

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been reported (it might be a duplicate instead). otherwise, make sure that there
are steps (a valid test case) that clearly display the issue as an unexpected
defect.

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