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From: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@ALCATEL.COM.AU>
Subject: Re: file creation times ?
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On 2000-May-26 04:37:48 +1000, sthaug@nethelp.no wrote:
>> 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...)

The behaviour in emacs is (of course) customisable.  Check out
'info emacs Backup Copying'.  You can pick whether the backup
is the physical original, or a copy of it.  (Emacs also understands
symlinks, hardlinks and differences in ownership).

Peter


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