From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Koves Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: backup-by-copying-when-linked not honored on Windows Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 09:31:00 -0500 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.0.20031220092951.022da088@localhost> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1071930805 29433 80.91.224.253 (20 Dec 2003 14:33:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 14:33:25 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 20 15:33:22 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AXiAT-0003zj-00 for ; Sat, 20 Dec 2003 15:33:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AXj6l-0004Uw-Ib for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Dec 2003 10:33:35 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AXj6F-0004Kf-Ex for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Dec 2003 10:33:03 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AXj5h-00046x-96 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Dec 2003 10:33:00 -0500 Original-Received: from [209.226.175.188] (helo=tomts25-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AXj5g-00046o-Vo for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Dec 2003 10:32:29 -0500 Original-Received: from LE05162_PK70L.sympatico.ca ([64.229.184.68]) by tomts25-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.05 201-253-122-130-105-20030824) with ESMTP id <20031220143101.GOAL6920.tomts25-srv.bellnexxia.net@LE05162_PK70L.sympatico.ca> for ; Sat, 20 Dec 2003 09:31:01 -0500 X-Sender: b1ksaq56/pop2.sympatico.ca@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:6336 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:6336 --text follows this line-- This bug report will be sent to the Free Software Foundation, not to your local site managers! Please write in English, because the Emacs maintainers do not have translators to read other languages for them. Your bug report will be posted to the bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org mailing list, and to the gnu.emacs.bug news group. 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 . h o w C-x C-s b a c k p C-g b a c k u p Recent messages: Loading cus-edit... Defining colors... Loading cus-edit...done Creating customization buffer... Loading wid-browse...done Creating customization buttons... Creating customization items... Creating customization items ...done Creating customization setup... Creating customization buffer...done