bernerus@BIRK.CS.CHALMERS.SE (Christer Bernerus) (06/28/90)
Excerpts from mail: 25-Jun-90 Re: Ez of symbolically link.. Bill Cattey@athena.mit.edu > Perhaps there should be new preferences added like: > ActionOnSymbolicLink: overwrite, new, query > BackupByCopying: true, false > -wdc Since I started the discussion and have been following it silently I'd now like to say that I agree with Bill. However I'd like to see those preferences too, otherwise it could get rather irritating if one is doing lots of editing in a shadow tree. Chris
markf@zurich.ai.mit.edu (06/29/90)
>> From: Adam Stoller <ghoti+@andrew.cmu.edu> >> To: Info-Andrew <info-andrew+@andrew.cmu.edu> >> Subject: Re: Ez of symbolically linked files. >> In-Reply-To: <9006251438.AA01624@zurich.ai.mit.edu> >> References: <9006251438.AA01624@zurich.ai.mit.edu> >> >> EZ currently offers the feature of being able to warn you about saving >> [Save As] a file with a name that is already in use and [Save] about >> possibly overwriting changes which occured underneath your editing >> session. >> >> It seems to me a similar device (lstat?) could be used to determine if >> the file which is about to be written is actually a symbolic (or hard??) >> link and warn you of that as well. >> >> I haven't looked at the code that does the former (nor am I volunteering >> to do the latter) - but I can't imagine it would be that hard? >> (probably the hardest thing is to figure out how to word the question >> that needs to be answered) >> >> --fish For my emacs write-file-hook I have a mechanism like the following: if file <filename> is a symbolic link then ask "Symbolic link. Overwrite <linked-to-filename>? " if the answer is yes then overwrite the file that the link points to. else ask "Remove symbolic link and create %s? " if the answer is yes then remove the link and create the file <filename>. endif endif endif Note that two "no" answers allows you to totally back out of the write. Mark Friedman MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab 545 Technology Sq. Cambridge, Ma. 02139 markf@zurich.ai.mit.edu ------- End of Unsent Draft
pive@BANRUC01.BITNET (06/29/90)
While one is discussing the problem with symbolic links, I wish to point some attention to another problem with ez: if I save a file, the acces modes are set according to the umask (or is mask) value of the csh, even if the file had another acces mode. P. Verhaeghe University of Antwerp, RUCA Algebra / Geometry Groenenborgerlaan 171 B-2020 Antwerpen, Belgium Tel: +32 3 2180308 Fax: +32 3 2180217 Telex: RUCABI 33362 E-mail: pive@banruc01.bitnet (or pive@ccu.uia.ac.be)
bernerus@BIRK.CS.CHALMERS.SE (Christer Bernerus) (10/02/90)
Sometime during the summer I brought up the problem with ez silently transforming symbolic links into real files. A long discussion took place, but apparently, nothing happened. Since I've been bitten again I'd like to bring up the subject. I've applied patch 6 and 7 but still have problems. Has there been any development on the subject that I've missed? Is the subject dropped or will something be done. I guess more people are having problems. Chris. ------------------------------------------------------- Christer Bernirus ! E-mail: bernerus@cs.chalmers.se Chalmers University of Technology ! Phone: +46 31 721000 Department of Computer Science ! Ham radio: SM6FBQ 144.3 MHz S-412 96 Gvteborg, SWEDEN