Modified flag being set erroneously

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From: Andrew Athan
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 1994 21:34

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GNU Emacs 19.24.1 of Thu Aug 11 1994 on idt33 (sparc-sun-sunos4.1)

I'm not sure that this is a bug:  If you have a readonly buffer and you
write-file in it, providing a name which is in a fictitious directory (e.g.,
/foobar/bar/bar), the name of the buffer changes to "bar" and the buffer
modified flag is set--despite the fact that the write-file failed.

Because the buffer is still marked read-only, you don't know that the
modification flag is on (though you can tell it is when you attempt to quit
emacs or in the list-buffers command).

aca

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