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Subject: Re: file creation times ? 
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> > > Such editors are broken.  What if the file is a symlink ?  IMHO 
> > > open() write() write() write() ftruncate() close() is the only way.
> > 
> > If that is the only way, then emacs is of course broken. (And I
> > disagree - I use emacs every day...)
> 
> Now there's an argument waiting to happen :-)
> 
> So if you create a file and make it writable by me and I edit it, it 
> becomes mine ?  Good ol' emacs !  I would guess that in real life it 
> *must* be smart enough not to do this (I don't have access to emacs 
> from here right now).

emacs is of course much smarter, and it's also customizable. I was just
reacting to the blanket statement that "open() write() write() write()
ftruncate() close() is the only way".

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no


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