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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
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Subject: Re: patch: write-file to arbitrary target directory
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> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 23:28:41 -0500
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> > This patch improves 'write-file' by creating  all parent directories of
> > target file (in spirit of proposal by Juri[1]).
> 
> Please place this functionality in the `interactive' form, not in the
> main body.

Exactly.  Or do something else to make sure these questions are not
popped up in non-interactive invocations, because users of these
routines do not expect any questions asked.