Re: Curious permission problem

[Ole Laursen]

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Michael Albinus
<address@hidden> wrote:
> I could reproduce the problem. However, it is different from the
> previous one. When you save a file, `set-file-modes' is called by
> `basic-save-buffer'. This is needed in order to keep permissions, when
> the original file version has been moved to be the backup file.

I was thinking that you could maybe store the original permissions in
a buffer-local variable and use that when copying it back instead of
relying on the file system? But that might be a bigger change.

Ole