Re: file-precious-flag and backup-by-copying-when-linked

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From: Richard Stallman
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 1994 06:11

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The feature that prevents an Emacs crash or system crash from leaving
the RMAIL file truncated is very important.

Otherwise users would not notice the truncated file until they had done a lot
more editing, and then it would be quite painful to recover from the
clobberage.

I don't know of any way to preserve multiple hard links when saving
precious files.  I suggest you use symbolic links instead.

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From: rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Richard Stallman)
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Subject: Re: file-precious-flag and backup-by-copying-when-linked
Date: 21 Aug 1994 02:11:45 -0400
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