Mercurial > emacs
changeset 31043:31a21ae1de1f
Document backup-by-copying-when-privileged-mismatch.
| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> |
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| date | Tue, 22 Aug 2000 10:33:38 +0000 |
| parents | bff0e9c38c5d |
| children | 13ccb42ca18c |
| files | man/files.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/man/files.texi Tue Aug 22 10:23:38 2000 +0000 +++ b/man/files.texi Tue Aug 22 10:33:38 2000 +0000 @@ -606,7 +606,10 @@ @vindex backup-by-copying @vindex backup-by-copying-when-linked @vindex backup-by-copying-when-mismatch - The choice of renaming or copying is controlled by three variables. +@vindex backup-by-copying-when-privileged-mismatch +@cindex file ownership, and backup +@cindex backup, and user's uid + The choice of renaming or copying is controlled by four variables. Renaming is the default choice. If the variable @code{backup-by-copying} is non-@code{nil}, copying is used. Otherwise, if the variable @code{backup-by-copying-when-linked} is non-@code{nil}, @@ -615,7 +618,12 @@ variable @code{backup-by-copying-when-mismatch} is non-@code{nil}, then copying is used if renaming would cause the file's owner or group to change. @code{backup-by-copying-when-mismatch} is @code{t} by default -if you start Emacs as the superuser. +if you start Emacs as the superuser. The fourth variable, +@code{backup-by-copying-when-privileged-mismatch}, gives the highest +numeric user id for which @code{backup-by-copying-when-mismatch} will be +forced on. This is useful when low-numbered uid's are assigned to +special system users, such as @code{root}, @code{bin}, @code{daemon}, +etc., which must maintain ownership of files. When a file is managed with a version control system (@pxref{Version Control}), Emacs does not normally make backups in the usual way for