backup-by-copying-when-linked not honored on Windows

backup-by-copying-when-linked not honored on Windows

[Peter Koves]

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In GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (i386-msvc-nt5.1.2600)
  of 2003-03-27 on buffy
configured using `configure --with-msvc (12.00)'
Important settings:
   value of $LC_ALL: EN_US
   value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
   value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
   value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
   value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
   value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
   value of $LC_TIME: nil
   value of $LANG: ENC
   locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
   default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

In .emacs I have (backup-by-copying-when-linked t).
However hardlinked files on NTFS are not treated
properly. That is, the original file is renamed
into the backup directory so the links now point
to it rather than the new file.



Recent input:
t h e s e SPC m a y SPC b e SPC o v e r r i d e n SPC
b y SPC e n v i r o n m n e t SPC v a r i a b l e s
. <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> h o w <delete> <delete>
<delete> <delete> <mouse-wheel> <mouse-wheel> <mouse-wheel>
<mouse-wheel> <mouse-wheel> <mouse-wheel> <mouse-wheel>
C-x C-s <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<menu-bar> <help-menu> <report-emacs-bug> b a c k p
C-g <menu-bar> <options> <customize> <customize-apropos>
b a c k u p <return> <help-echo> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1>
<down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar>
<help-menu> <report-emacs-bug>

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Re: backup-by-copying-when-linked not honored on Windows

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 09:31:00 -0500
> From: Peter Koves <kovesp@sympatico.ca>
> 
> In .emacs I have (backup-by-copying-when-linked t).
> However hardlinked files on NTFS are not treated
> properly.

Does NTEmacs using Microsoft runtime at all support NTFS hard links?
That is, do you see a number of links greater than one in the second
member of the list returned by file-attributes?