[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 144298] New: Save-As: Misleading message if directory is not writable

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144298

            Bug ID: 144298
           Summary: Save-As: Misleading message if directory is not
                    writable
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: 7.3.0.0 alpha0+ Master
          Hardware: All
                OS: Linux (All)
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: framework
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: jim.avera at gmail.com

If a Save is attempted into a directory which does not have write permission,
the error appears (my guess) to be undetected, or at least not reported up to
the UI.

The result is that the user is shown a confusing error over and over:

   "/path/to/readonly-directory/file.ods does not exist".

If the user clicks OK (the only choice), the error box re-appears immediately,
and this repeats several times before the user is able to recover control.

My guess is that the failed save was not detected, and subsequent operations
which try to read or validate the new file name fail with the above message.

At the C level, a file-create call [ open(pathname, O_CREAT|...) ] in this
situation returns -1 and sets ERRNO to 13 ("Permission denied").   But this
error
is not making it to the user.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE:

1.  mkdir /tmp/Testdir
2.  chmod -w /tmp/Testdir
3.  Attempt to save any file from LO into /tmp/Testdir/something

RESULTS:  Stuck (for several iterations) at the "does not exist" message

EXPECTED RESULTS: "Permission denied" or similar, once only, allowing the user
to take corrective action.

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