From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: backup method Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 00:28:09 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20050127000210.GA6167@boetes.org> <200501270045.j0R0jIq06197@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <20050127015432.GB6167@boetes.org> <20050128035618.GI6167@boetes.org> <20050129060851.GQ6167@boetes.org> <200501291842.j0TIgVw09020@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <20050129225259.GT6167@boetes.org> <87r7k3zti5.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <874qgyxw24.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <878y681iga.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1107582348 23050 80.91.229.2 (5 Feb 2005 05:45:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 05:45:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 05 06:45:47 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CxIkz-0003Vh-1p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Feb 2005 06:45:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CxIye-0001B8-AC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Feb 2005 00:59:28 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CxIxj-0000d2-Fl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Feb 2005 00:58:32 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CxIxc-0000Zg-Kr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Feb 2005 00:58:25 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CxIxc-0000Xb-GX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Feb 2005 00:58:24 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CxIXL-0008Ik-C8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Feb 2005 00:31:15 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1CxIUL-0006nQ-2o; Sat, 05 Feb 2005 00:28:09 -0500 Original-To: David Kastrup In-reply-to: (message from David Kastrup on Thu, 03 Feb 2005 10:27:24 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:32898 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:32898 The permissions in world-writable temp directories are almost always 1777 which means that nobody but the owner can delete such a file. I had forgotten about that feature, so thanks for reminding me. However, not all world-writable directories are temp directories.