415023 - Print to file fails silently when permission denied

Status: NEW

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect)

Description

[Kyle Guinn]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070601 SeaMonkey/1.1.2 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070601 SeaMonkey/1.1.2 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0

Printing a webpage to a postscript file in a directory where the user does not have write privileges gives no feedback that the operation failed.  No file is created, and no "Permission Denied" warning message occurs.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open any webpage.
2. Go to File->Print
3. Select PostScript/default and the "Print to File" checkbox, then print.
4. When prompted for the filename, select a directory where you don't have write permission (e.g. /).
Actual Results:  
It goes through the motion of printing to file, but no file is created and no warning message occurs.

Expected Results:  
The program should prompt the user immediately that permission is denied.

Comment 1

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Can you reproduce with SeaMonkey v1.1.9 ?

Comment 2

[Kyle Guinn]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Can you reproduce with SeaMonkey v1.1.9 ?
> 

Yes, the bug still occurs with v1.1.9.

Comment 3

[Andrew Schultz]

This worked with the XUL filepicker, but it seems we ignore failure when using the gtk filepicker.

Comment 4

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

(In reply to comment #3)
> This worked with the XUL filepicker, but it seems we ignore failure when using
> the gtk filepicker.
> 

IOW, a workaround would be setting ui.allow_platform_file_picker to false in about:config?

Comment 5

[Andrew Schultz]

A better workaround would be to save to a location that is writable :)

Comment 6

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

(In reply to comment #5)
> A better workaround would be to save to a location that is writable :)
> 

Of course, but this bug is all about getting no error when you thought it was writable, and it fact it isn't. :-)

Comment 8

[RNicoletto]

Isn't this a DUPE of bug 245602?