Mercurial > emacs
changeset 12145:bd3e59a5c0b3
(file-precious-flag): Doc clarification.
| author | Karl Heuer <kwzh@gnu.org> |
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| date | Fri, 09 Jun 1995 01:00:42 +0000 |
| parents | 12720a817d83 |
| children | 3cc9c1ed504d |
| files | lisp/files.el |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/lisp/files.el Fri Jun 09 00:55:30 1995 +0000 +++ b/lisp/files.el Fri Jun 09 01:00:42 1995 +0000 @@ -131,7 +131,13 @@ (defconst file-precious-flag nil "*Non-nil means protect against I/O errors while saving files. Some modes set this non-nil in particular buffers. -Note that this forces backups to be made by copying. + +This feature works by writing the new contents into a temporary file +and then renaming the temporary file to replace the original. +In this way, any I/O error in writing leaves the original untouched, +and there is never any instant where the file is nonexistent. + +Note that this feature forces backups to be made by copying. Yet, at the same time, saving a precious file breaks any hard links between it and other files.")