Re: [PLUG] acl pulled from rh! [TROLL]

["William H. Magill" <magill@mcgillsociety.org>]

On Saturday, May 24, 2003, at 02:49  AM, sean finney wrote:
> also, i don't know if you can put acl's on ext2 directories like you 
> can
> in solaris, which is really nice for dealing with the whole emacs
> "unlink-and-create-new-file-owned-by-me" thing.

Why not just change the emacs flags?

The standard default is to rename the files (which breaks the links).
To change the default to copy, and thereby leave the original
owner and links, put
	(setq backup-by-copying t)
in your .emacs file (or do it site wide, if that is the issue.)

See: info/backup/ Backup Copying

`backup-by-copying'
`backup-by-copying-when-mismatch'
`backup-by-copying-when-linked'
`backup-by-copying-when-privileged-mismatch'

T.T.F.N.
William H. Magill
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