GNU bug report logs - #10753
24.0.50; Vc-rcs under Windows does not make buffer or file read-only when file is checked in

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Mathias Dahl <mathias.dahl <at> ifsworld.com>

Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 16:57:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 8924

Found in versions 23.3, 24.0.50

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 10753 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Mathias Dahl <mathias.dahl <at> ifsworld.com>
Cc: 10753 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#10753: 24.0.50;
	Vc-rcs under Windows does not make buffer or file read-only when file
	is checked in
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/
This bug report was last modified 13 years and 166 days ago.

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