Re: Broken operating systems....

Tuesday, 13 June 2000

        Daniel Pittman <daniel(a)danann.net&gt; 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

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