From: Han Boetes <han@mijncomputer.nl>
Subject: Re: backup method
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 02:54:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050127015432.GB6167@boetes.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fc339e4a05012617204f4c7180@mail.gmail.com>
Miles Bader wrote:
> Backup-by-renaming is the best method for general use; there are
> specific exceptional cases where it doesn't work well. If some
> of these exceptional cases are easy to detect, Emacs should
> detect them.
If the file is open ie another program has fopen'ed the file then
you have an exceptional case.
lsof and fstat ( for BSD ) can detect open file descriptors. I
suppose emacs can do the same.
# Han
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-27 1:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-27 0:02 backup method Han Boetes
2005-01-27 0:45 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-01-27 1:20 ` Miles Bader
2005-01-27 1:37 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-01-27 1:54 ` Han Boetes [this message]
2005-01-27 22:18 ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-28 3:56 ` Han Boetes
2005-01-29 4:16 ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-29 6:08 ` Han Boetes
2005-01-29 18:42 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-01-29 21:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-01-29 21:48 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-01-29 22:37 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-01-29 22:49 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-01-29 21:57 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-01-29 22:05 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-01-29 22:52 ` Han Boetes
2005-01-29 23:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-01-30 21:52 ` Han Boetes
2005-01-31 0:20 ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-31 0:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-02-01 13:30 ` Richard Stallman
2005-02-01 14:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-02-03 6:40 ` Richard Stallman
2005-02-03 9:27 ` David Kastrup
2005-02-03 10:15 ` Han Boetes
2005-02-05 5:28 ` Richard Stallman
2005-02-05 10:26 ` David Kastrup
2005-02-06 10:29 ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-31 0:20 ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-31 4:07 ` Han Boetes
2005-01-29 20:06 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-01-30 10:57 ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-30 11:39 ` Han Boetes
2005-01-27 18:25 ` Kevin Rodgers
2005-01-27 20:25 ` Reiner Steib
2005-01-27 23:19 ` Miles Bader
2005-01-27 23:12 ` Miles Bader
2005-01-28 3:55 ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-27 1:47 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-01-27 2:08 ` Han Boetes
2005-01-27 2:27 ` Han Boetes
2005-01-27 4:59 ` Han Boetes
2005-01-27 2:37 ` Miles Bader
2005-01-27 3:27 ` Han Boetes
2005-01-27 5:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-01-27 5:27 ` Han Boetes
2005-01-27 19:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-01-28 4:14 ` Han Boetes
2005-01-27 8:30 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-01-27 19:55 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-01-27 21:12 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-01-27 20:15 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-01-27 22:19 ` Richard Stallman
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