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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...)

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no


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