From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: backup files on mounted filesystems Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 12:58:24 -0400 Message-ID: References: <406986C2-7976-4888-BF14-EED156EBBDE3@manchester.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1365786025 17011 80.91.229.3 (12 Apr 2013 17:00:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 17:00:25 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 12 19:00:29 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UQhKs-00075q-Oi for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Apr 2013 19:00:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39287 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UQhKs-0001ZX-Fq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:00:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:52991) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UQhKd-0001TC-TF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:00:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UQhKX-0001A3-HP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:00:11 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:39467) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UQhKX-000182-Ap for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:00:05 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UQhKV-0006PI-E1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Apr 2013 19:00:03 +0200 Original-Received: from 69-196-129-29.dsl.teksavvy.com ([69.196.129.29]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 12 Apr 2013 19:00:03 +0200 Original-Received: from monnier by 69-196-129-29.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 12 Apr 2013 19:00:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 69-196-129-29.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:zfItSyd255ocJuZbhBsZvG8cMNQ= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:90127 Archived-At: > I've noticed that I do not seem to get automatic backup files if I am > on a mounted filesystem (eg /tmp). On Unix, you can't basically access a file unless it's on a mounted filesystem. Even "/" is a "mounted filesystem". But yes, /tmp is treated specially in Emacs. You can set backup-enable-predicate to another function if you want to change this behavior. Stefan