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Article #87854file-precious-flag and backup-by-copying-when-linked
From: Joerg-Martin Schwarz
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 1994 13:22
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 1994 13:22
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I discovered a problem with the way emacs saves files flagged as
precious (for instance ~/RMAIL ) to disk.
As far as I understand from files.el, the buffer contents is written to
some temporary file which after successfully writing to disk
is renamed to ~/RMAIL.
However my ~/RMAIL has several hard links,
with backup-by-copying-when-linked set;
and the other links still keep their old contents when the tempfile is
renamed, instead of being linked to the new ~/RMAIL file.
Can this be fixed somehow ?
Is this way of saving precious files really necessary, since
a copy of the old file contents is saved as "~/RMAIL~" anyway?
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Mit besten Gruessen,
Joerg-Martin Schwarz
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fb2f1,8231aca8eee94c79,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfb2f1,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-08-20 06:25:07 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!redstone.interpath.net!ddsw1!news.kei.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!hal1.physik.uni-dortmund.de!schwarz From: schwarz@hal1.physik.uni-dortmund.de (Joerg-Martin Schwarz) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Subject: file-precious-flag and backup-by-copying-when-linked Date: 20 Aug 1994 09:22:17 -0400 Organization: Universitaet Dortmund Lines: 28 Sender: daemon@cis.ohio-state.edu Approved: bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu Distribution: gnu Message-ID: <SCHWARZ.94Aug19150035@hal1.physik.uni-dortmund.de>