Description of Problem:
gedit reports that a file cannot be saved if the
containing folder does not have write permissions
for the current user/group, even if the particular
file has the correct permissions.

(/usr/local/etc) - (eskimo@ttyp2.jake)
-$ ll |grep squid
drwxr-xr-x  4  root  wheel  512 Apr 18 15:53 squid

(/usr/local/etc) - (eskimo@ttyp2.jake)
-$ ll squid/banlist.txt      
-rw-rw-r--  1  eskimo  wheel  50440 Apr 18 15:53
squid/banlist.txt

As you can see, banlist.txt is owned by
eskimo:wheel, and should be writeable by eskimo,
or by any member of the wheel (of which eskimo is
a member). 

However, when saving banlist.txt from gedit, the
following error is displayed:
Could not save the file
"/usr/local/etc/squid/banlist.txt"

If the parent folder (/usr/local/etc/squid) is
'chmod g+w', gedit is happy. However, this should
not be the behaviour of the program. I tried
editing it in pico even without g+w on squid/, and
it works fine.


The problem can be reproduced 100% using the steps
I mentioned above. However, the actual code error
might be causing other problems that I have not
tested (eg, what happens if the folder is u-w, but
the file is u+w?).

I am using gedit v2.2.1 on FreeBSD 4.7.

In addition to email, feel free to contact me in
#gedit on irc.gimp.org (nick EsKi).