Re: Broken operating systems....
Daniel Pittman <daniel(a)danann.net> writes:
Does FSF Emacs have the same problem. I don't think our saving
routines are very much different?
In the short term[1], is it worth my while putting together a patch
to
fix this in XEmacs by resolving the output filename and only ever
passing the real name to the system?
It seems sensible to access a file using one consistent name. However
if it is short term only, does playing with back-up-by-copying and friends help?
I had a glance at the code and this is, um, non-trivial to do, I
think.
Especially as it would mean potentially dealing with GC. I will put in
the effort if needed, though.
If you want you can try writing the code first without the GC-stuff. I
don't think the file handling code does any GC-ing as long as
file-name-handler-alist
Jan