From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Cannot use normal save (C-x C-s) when operating over network mount Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:16:00 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <138c5903-8919-49a7-a9e6-7465aa843379@z16g2000prd.googlegroups.com> References: <4227602e-ed9f-4ca5-aa35-270ead107806@d38g2000prn.googlegroups.com> <43e96590-0b23-44de-848a-20739a0da5de@g19g2000yql.googlegroups.com> <8879d2a2-3d9b-4256-95de-68dbb6b44d19@b9g2000yqm.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1244857291 10241 80.91.229.12 (13 Jun 2009 01:41:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 01:41:31 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 13 03:41:29 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-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 1MFIFN-000613-6p for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 03:41:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49393 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MFIFM-0002wN-OZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:41:28 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!postnews.google.com!z16g2000prd.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 14 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 124.13.2.139 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1244855760 25942 127.0.0.1 (13 Jun 2009 01:16:00 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 01:16:00 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: z16g2000prd.googlegroups.com; posting-host=124.13.2.139; posting-account=pYxWjwkAAACsHSUNDoi5N05LVCTP7PVM User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:170003 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:65230 Archived-At: On Jun 12, 7:50=A0pm, Kim Christensen wrote: > Here is the (possibly) related gedit bug I mentioned earlier:https://bugs= .launchpad.net/sambaserver/+bug/34813 > > It seems that the problem is gedit trying to rename a file which has > an open file descriptor, which is not supported on (some) non-Linux > filesystems as is the case with SMB/CIFS. Maybe this is the case with > Emacs too? I'm not too much of a wizard to check the behaviour > myself :-) Emacs doesn't generally hold files open, it reads the contents into a buffer and closes the fle descriptor. So is another program holding the file open?