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Re: yes I'm root but want 444 files found readonly
From: |
David desJardins |
Subject: |
Re: yes I'm root but want 444 files found readonly |
Date: |
03 Jul 2002 11:46:42 -0700 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 |
"Francesco Potorti`" writes:
> In my opinion, that should be standard Emacs behaviour. root should be
> protected against writing its own read-only files justa as anyone else.
>
> But anyway, why don't you put those four lines in your
> /etc/emacs/default.el or ~root/.emacs? I did the former.
Modifying emacs on his system protects one, or a few users, from this
problem. Reporting the bug, and getting it fixed everywhere, protects
many thousands of users. I tend to agree with him, the latter is worth
the trouble but the former isn't.
David desJardins