From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: backup-buffer-copy loops if old backup can't be deleted Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 00:07:50 -0400 Message-ID: References: <46CAD810.3050904@gmx.net> <46CE8501.9040307@gmx.net> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1188034238 27181 80.91.229.12 (25 Aug 2007 09:30:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 09:30:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Martin von Gagern Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 25 11:30:36 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IOryT-0001AN-CK for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Aug 2007 11:30:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IOryS-0002kx-Rx for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Aug 2007 05:30:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IOryQ-0002j7-EA for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Aug 2007 05:30:30 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IOryO-0002hh-SJ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Aug 2007 05:30:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IOryO-0002hR-EG for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Aug 2007 05:30:28 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IOmwD-0007Qd-8j for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Aug 2007 00:07:53 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IOmwA-0001qQ-UJ; Sat, 25 Aug 2007 00:07:50 -0400 In-reply-to: <46CE8501.9040307@gmx.net> (message from Martin von Gagern on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 09:13:05 +0200) X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:16442 Archived-At: I didn't write that patch, but I guess there could be a purpose for it. Namely it could help deleting a file in vain. If there are Filesystems that let you delete a writable file even though you can't create new ones in a non-writable dir, then without those lines, emacs would delete an old backup only to find out that it can't create a new one. That sounds like a good reason.