From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Cc: Emacs development discussions <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: save-buffer: avoid data loss on interrupt
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 21:40:23 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvd3brandr.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pqfsqtsj.fsf@rho.meyering.net> (Jim Meyering's message of "Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:13:16 +0100")
I generally like the idea of making buffer-save atomic, but there are
two problems:
- non-trivial issues w.r.t breaking hard links and preserving access rights.
- we can't change any part of this while we're in feature freeze anyway.
The second problem means we have time to work through the first problem.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-14 2:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-09 10:26 enabling atomic-update more often, i.e., rewrite via rename Jim Meyering
2011-12-13 17:13 ` save-buffer: avoid data loss on interrupt Jim Meyering
2011-12-13 20:03 ` Paul Eggert
2011-12-13 20:52 ` Jim Meyering
2011-12-13 21:47 ` Paul Eggert
2011-12-13 22:27 ` chad
2011-12-14 14:40 ` Jim Meyering
2011-12-14 18:51 ` Paul Eggert
2011-12-15 23:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-12-14 2:40 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2011-12-15 12:58 ` Jim Meyering
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