Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!shadooby!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!uflorida!haven!mimsy!mojo!djm From: djm@eng.umd.edu (David J. MacKenzie) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: UEmacs 3.10 Keywords: UEmacs, file permissions Message-ID: <1989Nov9.035232.15722@eng.umd.edu> Date: 9 Nov 89 03:52:32 GMT References: <440@secola.Columbia.NCR.COM> Sender: news@eng.umd.edu (The News System) Reply-To: djm@eng.umd.edu (David J. MacKenzie) Organization: University of Maryland Lines: 20 In article <440@secola.Columbia.NCR.COM> krupczak@secola.UUCP (Bobby Krupczak) writes: >I am using Micro Emacs 3.10. I have noticed that 3.10 seems to ignore >current file permissions and use my umask setting by default. Also >when editing files owned by other users, the owner gets changed to >me? Has anyone encountered similiar problems, and if so, is there >a fix for 3.10 that I dont have? This is called "safe save mode", which means uemacs saves a copy of the file, then renames it to the original name. It's turned on by default, which is bad in Unix for the reasons Bobby describes. To turn it off, put set $ssave FALSE in your ~/.emacsrc file. If you are able to recompile uemacs, I suggest you get the unofficial Unix patches to it from a comp.sources.misc archive, which make $ssave FALSE by default and also add some useful features like tilde completion and much faster filename completion. -- David J. MacKenzie