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Re: Emacs breaks hard links?
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Reiner Steib |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs breaks hard links? |
Date: |
Sun, 16 Jul 2006 21:24:16 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
On Sat, Jul 15 2006, Sebastian Pipping wrote:
> When I save a file in Emacs it seems the original file
> is renamed to "example~" and a new file "example"
> is created. This causes trouble with hard links:
> If the original file was shared by three hard links
> then after saving the other two hard links share
> the file content with the backup file while the
> up-to-date file is not linked to them anymore.
>
> I wonder if this hard-link-breaking-logic was really
> intended. Please let me know what you think about this.
Set `backup-by-copying-when-linked' to t:
,----[ (info "(emacs)Backup Copying") ]
| The choice of renaming or copying is controlled by four variables.
| Renaming is the default choice. If the variable `backup-by-copying' is
| non-`nil', copying is used. Otherwise, if the variable
| `backup-by-copying-when-linked' is non-`nil', then copying is used for
| files that have multiple names, but renaming may still be used when the
| file being edited has only one name.
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Bye, Reiner.
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