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From: nwd@j.cc.purdue.edu (Daniel Lawrence)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: UEmacs 3.10
Summary: uEMACS UNIX saving
Keywords: UEmacs, file permissions
Message-ID: <10322@j.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 9 Nov 89 16:52:16 GMT
References: <440@secola.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Reply-To: nwd@j.cc.purdue.edu (Daniel Lawrence)
Organization: Purdue University
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In article <440@secola.Columbia.NCR.COM> krupczak@secola.UUCP (Bobby Krupczak) writes:
>Hi!
>
>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?
>
>bobby

	Not so much a bug, as a feature......  actually it implements a new
saving algorithm which writes out a temp file, deletes the original, and
then renames the temp file.  This prevents system crashes from
destroying the file.  This behavior is controled by the $ssave variable
and can be turned off by setting it to FALSE.  (One would add the
following to their .emacsrc file:

	set $ssave FALSE

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