chris.umcp-cs@UDel-Relay (03/31/83)
From: Chris Torek <chris.umcp-cs@UDel-Relay> Does anyone know of a good reason why Emacs's .BAK and .CKP files should be mode 0600 all the time, instead of the same mode as the original file?
pang (04/05/83)
#R:sri-arpa:-77700:ubc-medgen:5800002:000:307
ubc-medgen!pang Apr 3 20:36:00 1983
A probable reason is to prevent other users from clobberring your .BAK
and .CKP files when:
(1) they will be/are working in the same directory as you are, and/or
(2) they are editing the files that you edited earlier.
Of course it also means that they probably won't have their .CKP and .BAK
files.