Subject: Re: bug#10753: 24.0.50; Vc-rcs under Windows does not make buffer or file read-only when file is checked in

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:56:04 -0500

Mathias Dahl wrote:

> C-x C-f c:/test.txt RET
> type some data and save with C-x C-s
> C-x v v
> Chose RCS as backend.
> Notice that the buffer is not read-only, and the same goes for the file.

It works for me with the current trunk under GNU/Linux.
Either this is MS Windows-specific, or...

> In GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7600)
>  of 2010-06-08 on 3249CTO

... that is fairly old. Please try the latest 24.0.9x pretest from

alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/windows/