Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 08:00:55 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: sthaug@nethelp.no Cc: brian@Awfulhak.org, Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com, adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org, peter.jeremy@ALCATEL.COM.AU, hackers@FreeBSD.org, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: file creation times ? Message-ID: <200005260700.IAA00435@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from sthaug@nethelp.no of "Thu, 25 May 2000 20:37:22 %2B0200." <34805.959279842@verdi.nethelp.no>
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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).
> Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no
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Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org> <brian@[uk.]FreeBSD.org>
<http://www.Awfulhak.org>; <brian@[uk.]OpenBSD.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !
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