From: Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Root emacs weirdness
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 23:55:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <barmar-0B101C.23551721092013@news.eternal-september.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.2682.1379808553.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
In article <mailman.2682.1379808553.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> wrote:
> notbob wrote:
> > While learning about linux gutz, I used emacs dired by root to edit
> > /proc/sys/kernel/dmesg_restrict file from a 1 to a 0.
>
> Your misunderstanding starts with missing that the entire /proc is not
> a real filesystem. It is a fake filesystem. It is meant as a way to
> present kernel data to the user. It is not intended to hold random
> files. When you try to create backups in that directory the backup of
> the file can't exist there.
Perhaps backups should be inhibited by default for /proc.
--
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
*** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-21 11:22 Root emacs weirdness notbob
2013-09-22 0:08 ` Bob Proulx
[not found] ` <mailman.2682.1379808553.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-09-22 3:00 ` notbob
2013-09-22 3:55 ` Barry Margolin [this message]
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