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>>>>> On 7 Aug 91 01:44:26 GMT,
>>>>> In message <9108070144.AA03046@brauer.harvard.edu>,
>>>>> grabiner@zariski.harvard.edu (David Grabiner) wrote:

David> This is another protection problem, related to the auto-save
David> protection problem.  With a umask of 022, I am editing a LaTeX
David> file with permissions 600.  When I run LaTeX from within Emacs,
David> the file in /tmp is created with permissions 644, and I can't
David> even protect the directory, as I can when I am editing a file.
David> If a buffer is visiting a file, the protection of that file
David> should be preserved when a new file containing its contents is
David> created, whether this is an auto-save file or a temporary file.

>>>>> On Wed, 7 Aug 1991 19:56:30 GMT,
>>>>> In message <1991Aug7.195630.5324@watmath.waterloo.edu>,
>>>>> I wrote:

Hamish> Fixed for auto-save in emacs v19

Hmmph.. I should read a little more carefully.  What I mean is that
autosave *will* respect the permissions of the original file.

Your problem here is something which could probably be fixed in the
TeX code where it creates the file.  I couldn't say whether or not it
will be fixed in future versions of emacs.

However, you can, at the moment, set the variable:

TeX-directory's value is "/tmp/"

Documentation:
*Directory in which to run TeX subjob.  Temporary files are
created in this directory.

and point it to a personal directory somewhere which already exists
with the appropriate permissions.
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