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Re: ensure that generated files are read-only
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: ensure that generated files are read-only |
Date: |
Thu, 07 Sep 2006 16:02:42 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) |
Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:
> If it's really a major annoyance, you should switch to
> an editor that lets you circumvent such things more easily.
> In Emacs, C-xC-q is the typical binding to toggle read-only.
> For Vi, to save a file owned by you, in spite of its read-only
> setting, just use :w!
I suspect he's objecting to even these minor hassles.
Also, :w! does not overwrite readonly files in Bill Joy's original
"vi", which I still commonly use (I just tested this on Solaris 10).
(I still prefer the original "vi" to VIM since my fingers are used to
its behavior. :-)
And perhaps other people use other editors; we can't really expect
everyone to switch to Emacs or VIM.
> I was wondering about the 14-byte file name length limitation that
> we've worried about over the years. But it's been so long since anyone
> has reported a problem with longer names, that I suspect they dropped
> out of common usage some time ago.
I tend to agree. For what it's worth, POSIX with the XSI extension
has required support for 255-byte file names since 2001. Plain POSIX
still only requires 14-byte file names, but even platforms claiming
support for only plain POSIX support 255, on all practical development
platforms I'm aware of. (Runtime environments could well be
different.)
- Re: ensure that generated files are read-only, (continued)
- Re: ensure that generated files are read-only, Simon Josefsson, 2006/09/07
- Re: ensure that generated files are read-only, Simon Josefsson, 2006/09/07
- Re: ensure that generated files are read-only, Ralf Wildenhues, 2006/09/07
- Re: ensure that generated files are read-only, Bruce Korb, 2006/09/07
- Re: ensure that generated files are read-only, Simon Josefsson, 2006/09/07
- Re: ensure that generated files are read-only, Ralf Wildenhues, 2006/09/07
- Re: ensure that generated files are read-only, Simon Josefsson, 2006/09/07
- Re: ensure that generated files are read-only, Bruce Korb, 2006/09/07
- Re: ensure that generated files are read-only, Simon Josefsson, 2006/09/08
Re: ensure that generated files are read-only, Jim Meyering, 2006/09/07
Re: ensure that generated files are read-only, Bruno Haible, 2006/09/09
Re: ensure that generated files are read-only, Bruno Haible, 2006/09/09
Re: ensure that generated files are read-only, Jim Meyering, 2006/09/14
Re: ensure that generated files are read-only, Paul Eggert, 2006/09/14
Re: ensure that generated files are read-only, Jim Meyering, 2006/09/14
Re: ensure that generated files are read-only, Paul Eggert, 2006/09/14
Re: ensure that generated files are read-only, Jim Meyering, 2006/09/15
Re: [bug-gnulib] ensure that generated files are read-only, Bruno Haible, 2006/09/07