From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Arne Schmitz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Why emacs touches read-only file? Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 12:07:03 +0200 Message-ID: <58ota7F2h6nrhU1@mid.dfncis.de> References: <1176920422.786251.122770@d57g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> <1176957833.977449.134340@e65g2000hsc.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1176978934 22970 80.91.229.12 (19 Apr 2007 10:35:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:35:34 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 19 12:35:28 2007 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 1HeTz3-0003uq-Sr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 12:35:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HeU3z-0002yu-IW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 06:40:31 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newshub.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!news.dfncis.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Trace: news.dfncis.de PR7f7EYM78idWR57MbRpswXv4Ucc6N10Pg9xRacOUlYQJpSvfGTLZXrIIY User-Agent: KNode/0.10.4 X-Face: 6mEv.X1Mp:6[, p3$V>2BV2-[y=R7-3-F#w\6IA0O0rEeT^r5HIiYqFxou^+LyB)OGjl]9M#e&88ug}Q@`Qc8U9w, ``uDCO5^YUPE9.rd11vM|.miS%5}-)pt(m|)KlcB@'wRL|L"+)F{cDF03*{cja_^hq_J]C{wL|%Gr#S3j8jqB)urj#udD+Sd8\ad`H<#)io Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:147211 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:42816 Archived-At: Daniel wrote: > It is very weird. In my work place, I was using REDHAT 9 and SUSE 9.3. > In there, emacs (21) write the buffer regardless of the file > permission. I am using Ubuntu in my home, and installed "GNU Emacs > 22.0.50.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of > 2006-09-19 on rothera, modified by Debian", which works properly. > > Hmm...Something wrong in the emacs in SUSE 9.3 or REDHAT 9. How can I > fix the problem? What part should I see? Does the file you have edited by any chance reside on a networked mount? Arne -- [--- PGP key FD05BED7 --- http://www.root42.de/ ---]