From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Martin von Gagern <Martin.vGagern@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: backup-buffer-copy loops if old backup can't be deleted
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 23:01:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46CB529F.7010008@gmx.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pzbqd0wuin.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
> (while (condition-case ()
> (progn
> ! ;; Failure to delete an existing file is an error.
> ! (if (file-exists-p to-name)
> ! (delete-file to-name))
> (copy-file from-name to-name nil t)
> nil)
> (file-already-exists t))
> ;; The file was somehow created by someone else between
> ;; `delete-file' and `copy-file', so let's try again.
> + ;; FIXME does that every actually happen in practice?
> + ;; This is a potential infloop, which seems bad...
> nil))
I'm too silly to understand this. Why can't we use
(copy-file from-name to-name t t)
here as in Emacs 21? What was the rationale for this loop?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-21 21:01 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <mailman.5018.1187641790.32220.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-08-20 22:01 ` backup-buffer-copy loops if old backup can't be deleted Martin von Gagern
[not found] ` <mailman.5021.1187647310.32220.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-08-21 12:18 ` Martin von Gagern
2007-08-21 14:37 ` martin rudalics
2007-08-21 14:51 ` Martin von Gagern
2007-08-21 15:28 ` martin rudalics
2007-08-21 19:35 ` Glenn Morris
2007-08-21 21:01 ` martin rudalics [this message]
2007-08-21 21:50 ` Glenn Morris
2007-08-22 9:13 ` Martin von Gagern
2007-08-22 9:44 ` martin rudalics
2007-08-22 9:48 ` Martin von Gagern
2007-08-22 12:40 ` martin rudalics
2007-08-22 21:37 ` Michael Schierl
2007-08-21 22:21 ` Martin von Gagern
2007-08-22 9:51 ` Ulrich Mueller
2007-08-23 20:59 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-24 7:13 ` Martin von Gagern
2007-08-24 9:10 ` martin rudalics
2007-08-25 4:07 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-25 4:07 ` Richard Stallman
[not found] ` <mailman.5219.1187902794.32220.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-08-24 6:11 ` Ulrich Mueller
2007-08-20 19:58 Martin von Gagern
2007-08-21 6:50 ` martin rudalics
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