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24.3; NTEmacs write-region behaviour with MUSTBENEW set to 'excl

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From: Phil Sainty <psainty <at> orcon.net.nz>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.3; NTEmacs write-region behaviour with MUSTBENEW set to 'excl
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2013 20:21:37 +1200

I'm using write-region with the MUSTBENEW argument set to 'excl
to prohibit writing to an existing file. This works as advertised
on Ubuntu, but I happened to try the code under Windows and found
that the write was not prevented.

I further observed that, in this circumstance, the written
content only overwrites the start of the target file (leaving
the remainder), rather than replacing the whole file. This
appears to be the same behaviour as setting the APPEND argument
to zero.

Setting MUSTBENEW to t works as expected.

I'm using the following to test:

M-: (write-region (region-beginning) (region-end) "~/somefile" nil nil 
nil 'excl) RET





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Message #10 received at 15381-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Phil Sainty <psainty <at> orcon.net.nz>
Cc: 15381-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#15381: 24.3;
 NTEmacs write-region behaviour with MUSTBENEW set to 'excl
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2013 12:46:32 +0300

> Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2013 20:21:37 +1200
> From: Phil Sainty <psainty <at> orcon.net.nz>
> 
> I'm using write-region with the MUSTBENEW argument set to 'excl
> to prohibit writing to an existing file. This works as advertised
> on Ubuntu, but I happened to try the code under Windows and found
> that the write was not prevented.
> 
> I further observed that, in this circumstance, the written
> content only overwrites the start of the target file (leaving
> the remainder), rather than replacing the whole file. This
> appears to be the same behaviour as setting the APPEND argument
> to zero.
> 
> Setting MUSTBENEW to t works as expected.
> 
> I'm using the following to test:
> 
> M-: (write-region (region-beginning) (region-end) "~/somefile" nil nil 
> nil 'excl) RET

This is a known problem on Windows in all versions of Emacs released
until now.  The problem is already fixed in the development code.

If you can build your own Emacs, I can show you the change that is
required to fix the bug.

Thanks.

Message #13 received at 15381-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Phil Sainty <psainty <at> orcon.net.nz>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 15381-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#15381: 24.3;	NTEmacs write-region behaviour with MUSTBENEW
 set to 'excl
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2013 22:48:40 +1200

On 15/09/2013 21:46, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> This is a known problem on Windows in all versions of Emacs released
> until now.  The problem is already fixed in the development code.

Excellent, thank you.

> If you can build your own Emacs, I can show you the change that is
> required to fix the bug.

No, I haven't built Emacs on Windows before, but I also don't use
it enough on that platform to be worried about getting the fix early.


cheers,
-Phil

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