EFS 1.15 bug: efs-internal-backup-buffer should respect backup-inhibited

Vladimir Alexiev (vladimir@cs.ualberta.ca)
20 May 1998 10:32:01 -0600 

Salut bug team: [Hi, Ange! :]

I have a mailing list control file on a host/directory that I don't
have create permissions for. The sysadmin created the file for me and
made me owner. So I can edit the file, but can't create extra files
(which would correpond to creating extra mailing lists).

It doesn't seem that efs provides an easy way of specifying that backup
should be inhibited for a particular host/dir (it has a list of OSes
on which to make backups: too general). I suggest that it should
simply respect backup-inhibited, especially since there is a
user-level variable backup-enable-predicate to set this based on the
file name.

Regards, Vlad

Emacs  : XEmacs 20.3 "Vatican City" [Lucid] (sparc-sun-sunos4.1.4) of Mon Dec 15 1997 on sunkay
Package: efs

current state:
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(setq
 efs-cu-version "1.15/1.12"
 efs-defun-version "1.15/1.1"
 efs-dump-version "1.15/1.1"
 efs-fnh-version "1.15/1.3"
 efs-netrc-version "1.15/1.2"
 efs-ovwrt-version "1.15/1.2"
 efs-report-version "1.15/1.9"
 efs-version "1.15/1.56"
 efs-x19.15-version "1.15/1.2"
 efs-36-bit-binary-file-name-regexp nil
 efs-anonymous-umask nil
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 efs-binary-file-name-regexp "\\.\\([zZ]\\|t?gz\\|lzh\\|arc\\|zip\\|zoo\\|ta[rz]\\|dvi\\|sit\\|ps\\|elc\\|gif\\|Z-part-..\\|tpz\\|exe\\|[jm]pg\\|TZ[a-z]?\\|lib\\)\\(~\\|~[0-9]+~\\)?$\\|\\.\\(ARC\\|ELC\\|TAGS\\|EXE\\|ZIP\\|DVI|ZOO\\|GIF\\|T?GZ\\|[JM]PG\\)\\([.#;][0-9]+\\)?$"
 efs-buffer-name-case nil
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 efs-ftp-prompt-regexp "^\\(ftp\\|Ftp\\|FTP\\)> *"
 efs-gateway-ftp-prompt-regexp "^\\(ftp\\|Ftp\\|FTP\\)> *"
 efs-gateway-hash-mark-size nil
 efs-gateway-incoming-binary-hm-size nil
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 efs-make-backup-files '(unix sysV-unix bsd-unix next-unix apollo-unix
                         dumb-unix dumb-apollo-unix super-dumb-unix)
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 efs-maximize-idle nil
 efs-message-interval 0
 efs-nlist-cmd "ls"
 efs-nslookup-on-connect nil
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 efs-prompt-for-transfer-type nil
 efs-pty-check-retry-time 5
 efs-pty-check-threshold 1000
 efs-retry-time 5
 efs-root-umask nil
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 efs-suppress-abort-recursive-edit-and-then nil
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 efs-verify-anonymous-modtime nil
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 efs-ftp-program-name "ftp"
 efs-ftp-program-args '("-i" "-n" "-g" "-v")
 efs-local-host-regexp ".*"
 efs-ftp-local-host-regexp ".*"
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 efs-gateway-type nil
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