From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, christopher.ian.moore@gmail.com,
svenjoac@gmx.de, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: Re: creating backups in temporary directories
Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2007 15:47:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1IU6H6-0001wW-Nn@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85k5r22qzi.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (message from David Kastrup on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 21:52:01 +0200)
> Really? I've just tried this (with a symlink in ~/tmp instead of
> /tmp), and Emacs removed the symlink for the backup before saving
> the file. Are there circumstances where it might not do this?
Can you spell "race condition"?
A couple of weeks ago we were discussing the code in backup-buffer-copy
that deals with deleting files. The motive for that code may have
been an attempt to address this problem. But it may not really solve
the problem. Can we solve it there?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-08 19:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-07 10:42 creating backups in temporary directories Chris Moore
2007-09-07 15:36 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-07 17:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-09-07 19:43 ` Davis Herring
2007-09-07 19:49 ` Sven Joachim
2007-09-07 19:52 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-08 19:47 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2007-09-07 20:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-09-08 19:47 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-09 19:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-09-09 20:01 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-09 20:27 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-09-10 1:11 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-10 19:18 ` Davis Herring
2007-09-10 19:55 ` David Kastrup
[not found] ` <37852.128.165.123.18.1189451917.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov>
2007-09-10 19:23 ` Davis Herring
2007-09-11 20:32 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-11 21:17 ` Davis Herring
2007-09-10 1:12 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-10 2:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-09-08 14:38 ` Chris Moore
2007-09-08 19:48 ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-09 19:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-09-09 19:45 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-10 1:12 ` Richard Stallman
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