Hi! Thanks for maintaining the foldingtext-for-atom package!
I noticed that this package uses the File.writeSync method exported by atom. In an upcoming Atom release, (possibly Atom 1.19.3), this method's functionality will change slightly:
On macOS, when attempting to save a file for which the current user does not have write permissions, the method will no longer prompt the user for their credentials to save the file; it will simply throw an exception with the EACCES code.
After a major change to Atom's text buffer system, the functionality for escalating privileges has been reimplemented at another layer, and is now asynchronous. We are removing the ability to synchronously save a file with escalated privileges.
If you want to preserve the ability to save files owned by root on macOS, you could switch to saving files asynchronously and doing something similar to this PR, which uses the new spawn-as-admin module.
Let me know if you have any questions; I'd be glad to help.
Hi! Thanks for maintaining the
foldingtext-for-atompackage!I noticed that this package uses the
File.writeSyncmethod exported byatom. In an upcoming Atom release, (possibly Atom 1.19.3), this method's functionality will change slightly:On macOS, when attempting to save a file for which the current user does not have write permissions, the method will no longer prompt the user for their credentials to save the file; it will simply throw an exception with the
EACCEScode.After a major change to Atom's text buffer system, the functionality for escalating privileges has been reimplemented at another layer, and is now asynchronous. We are removing the ability to synchronously save a file with escalated privileges.
If you want to preserve the ability to save files owned by root on macOS, you could switch to saving files asynchronously and doing something similar to this PR, which uses the new spawn-as-admin module.
Let me know if you have any questions; I'd be glad to help.