| sean finney on Sun, 25 May 2003 03:26:09 -0400 |
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On Sun, May 25, 2003 at 02:26:33AM -0400, William H. Magill wrote: > 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? well that solves the problem for emacs, but doesn't for however many other programs share the same broken approach to writing files... imo the real solution is to have a system that will work without having to patch all of your installed software against libacl or not use certain 'features'. > 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.) that's what we did, iirc. i don't remember because i only figured out what was causing the problem, and passed it on to one of the emacs-using sysadmins :) sean Attachment:
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