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Re: Cannot use normal save (C-x C-s) when operating over network mount


From: Jason Rumney
Subject: Re: Cannot use normal save (C-x C-s) when operating over network mount
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:16:00 -0700 (PDT)
User-agent: G2/1.0

On Jun 12, 7:50 pm, Kim Christensen <kim.christen...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Here is the (possibly) related gedit bug I mentioned 
> earlier:https://bugs.launchpad.net/sambaserver/+bug/34813
>
> It seems that the problem is gedit trying to rename a file which has
> an open file descriptor, which is not supported on (some) non-Linux
> filesystems as is the case with SMB/CIFS. Maybe this is the case with
> Emacs too? I'm not too much of a wizard to check the behaviour
> myself :-)

Emacs doesn't generally hold files open, it reads the contents into a
buffer and closes the fle descriptor. So is another program holding
the file open?


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