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@ 2005-01-27  0:02 Han Boetes
  2005-01-27  0:45 ` Luc Teirlinck
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From: Han Boetes @ 2005-01-27  0:02 UTC (permalink / raw)


Hi,

The default backup method is mv and then create a new file. That's
nice if you really want to keep the timestamp intact. But if you
use emacs with crontab -e you remove the tmpfile and since the
filedescriptor is still open your update to your cron is lost --
without warning. It was pretty hard to discover why this happened.

So I would like to suggest to  make backup by copying the default.

Perhaps it's also an idea to disable backups altogether if the
file is in /tmp



# Han

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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
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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