Re: File cleared when remote disk is full

[Qiang Li]

Thank you for this quick fix! Qiang

On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 9:48 PM, Michael Albinus <address@hidden> wrote:

Qiang Li <address@hidden> writes:

> I was editing a remote file using scp protocol while the remote disk
> got full, and when I saved the file it silently became empty on the
> disk. I happened to notice this before I close Emacs, so I had the
> chance to write the buffer to another file. I think this behavior is
> dangerous and should be classified as a bug.

Thanks for the report. I've added some return code checking for
out-of-band copying. Note, that this does not work when your local
system is running MS Windows - I don't know hot to check a return code
in cmd.exe. Does anybody know?

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