From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 18141@debbugs.gnu.org, Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>,
yamaoka@jpl.org
Subject: bug#18141: 24.4.50; saving .gz file breaks file coding
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 20:03:31 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <itvbq56u98.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83iom5ptwv.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 06 Aug 2014 17:36:00 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> situation, and IMO it's perfectly OK for Emacs to leave just the
> backup file if it was brutally killed during that time window.
I disagre with it being "perfectly ok"; I think it is a real, albeit
minor problem.
> So I guess X-Symbol is likely also broken now,
(Isn't X-Symbol many-years-defunct anyway? No release in a decade AFAICS.)
> So I think simply reverting the r111638 changes and leaving bug#13522
> as wontfix is an easier way out.
Agreed with the first part, but not with the second part.
> An even better fix would be to make the backing up and saving a
> transaction-like process. That would solve the problem entirely. But
> I'm not sure this is feasible/practical, with parts of the puzzle
> implemented in C and parts in Lisp. If it is possible, it will
> probably be anything but simple, and so likely inappropriate for the
> emacs-24 branch.
Sounds right, ie reopen 13522 as minor/wishlist.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-07 0:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-29 6:59 bug#18141: 24.4.50; saving .gz file breaks file coding Katsumi Yamaoka
2014-07-30 0:10 ` Glenn Morris
2014-07-30 2:36 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2014-07-30 13:15 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2014-08-05 8:34 ` Glenn Morris
2014-08-06 14:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-06 16:43 ` Vincent Lefevre
2014-08-06 17:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-06 19:08 ` Vincent Lefevre
2014-08-06 19:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-07 0:31 ` Vincent Lefevre
2014-08-07 12:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-08-07 14:23 ` Vincent Lefevre
2014-08-11 1:06 ` Glenn Morris
2014-08-06 17:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-08-06 18:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-07 0:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-08-07 15:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-07 19:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-08-07 19:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-07 20:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-08-08 5:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-06 23:45 ` Glenn Morris
2014-08-07 0:03 ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2014-08-07 12:14 ` Stefan Monnier
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