Andreas Bombe <andreas.bombe@munich.netsurf.de> writes:
> > Editors are careful to place the modified file into the same inode as the
> > original. Only exception I found when I did a extensive check a while back
> > was jed, and that is broken IMHO.
I think that by default Emacs never copies.
> Emacs is an exception, too. And I wouldn't call it broken but
> efficient (consider big files).
>
> [andreasb@storm test]$ touch file
> [andreasb@storm test]$ ll -i
This isn't a good test. Emacs (and other editors too) can actually
examine the link count. See backup-by-copying-when-linked.
Jan
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