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From: crl@Newton.Purdue.EDU
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Subject: Re: GNU Emacs changes ownerships (ugh!)
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Date: Sat, 9-Aug-86 11:42:17 EDT
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From: Charles R. LaBrec <crl@Newton.Purdue.EDU>

It should be pointed out that the diffs posted to do ownership
changing of files only does any good if you're running as the
super-user, since chown() requires it.  Setting backup-by-copying is
the only way to ever guarantee that ownerships do not change.  As a
snap suggestion, perhaps the interpretation of backup-by-copying could
be changed such that if it is a list, the first value is like setting
backup-by-copying-when-linked, the second does copying if ownership
would change, the third if group membership would change, etc.

Charles LaBrec
crl @ newton.PURDUE.EDU