From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Colascione Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: TRAMP corrupting files (it's OS X's fault) Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 17:17:57 -0400 Organization: Merrill Press Message-ID: <200905261717.57767.danc@merrillpress.com> References: <6ee1e6090905072244j13994d04kca17ba993a205ed0@mail.gmail.com> <87prdvwsbg.fsf@gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1243372726 16538 80.91.229.12 (26 May 2009 21:18:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 21:18:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Michael Albinus Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 26 23:18:44 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 1M942l-0006JD-Pm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 May 2009 23:18:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48173 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M942l-0005IX-6x for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 May 2009 17:18:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M942C-00054V-GW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 May 2009 17:18:08 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M9427-00050m-Gh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 May 2009 17:18:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=59671 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M9427-00050Y-7N for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 May 2009 17:18:03 -0400 Original-Received: from vpn.merrillpress.com ([64.61.107.78]:41344) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M9426-0007KY-Ui for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 May 2009 17:18:03 -0400 Original-Received: from pluto.merrillpress.net ([10.136.5.5] helo=pluto.localnet) by mars.merrillpress.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1M9423-0005p2-0f; Tue, 26 May 2009 17:17:59 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.3 (Linux/2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.i686; KDE/4.2.3; i686; ; ) In-Reply-To: <87prdvwsbg.fsf@gmx.de> X-Face: 9VC; >}hM+`K4j{H4n=pq/!61'7Rt"vEaPUdCwpS'=; @B7Ll,~Q.xb(|A>; 8M[\UzKQi{>Q Iptc6NY\M(0<{W?ob}e/91Y!k|XE:2SA2LU"cni>#Dmw4siEWG7|L9zkOZ\[nQPe9[PG|s P2n_jW\TzsG2N1Z0q:E#NmWU~0i]JE)gqB|4{jCjolaX6)KO[@k\:>01.58.Pk5Nb\5s": R,Q78_s; 6+vLj\V1y(`]\G3("(Y!G^79x}q[4L8w[.qEs|+ZN0R`Hk,>y; d7!SFx%M2M39 y[/Kc!p!:.E3Zx')v*l6IlR Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:64748 Archived-At: On Tuesday 26 May 2009, Michael Albinus wrote: > Tramp cannot solve the problem, as said. But it might be worth to know, > that Tramp supports the `file-precious-flag' variable. If it is set to > `t', Tramp signals an error, when the remote file is corrupted during > copying. Why does file-precious-flag even exist? Isn't the behavior you get when it's t the behavior you *always* want when the combination of the various backup-by-* variables allows it?