Re: creating backups in temporary directories

[Richard Stallman]

    > Really?  I've just tried this (with a symlink in ~/tmp instead of
    > /tmp), and Emacs removed the symlink for the backup before saving
    > the file.  Are there circumstances where it might not do this?

    Can you spell "race condition"?

A couple of weeks ago we were discussing the code in backup-buffer-copy
that deals with deleting files.  The motive for that code may have
been an attempt to address this problem.  But it may not really solve
the problem.  Can we solve it there?