Subject: Re: bug#6953: 24.0.50; serious security bug in create backup files

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 14:29:27 -0500

Mark Diekhans wrote:

>> Regardless of what other problems there might be, such backups should
>> probably go somewhere under ~/.emacs.d.
>
> This makes a lot of sense, and makes it possible to redirect to
> a different file system by setting user-emacs-directory.

We seem to have gone in a circle.

http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=6953#23