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SubjectRe: cow-links
Christoph Rohland wrote:
> > ln --cow-link would be extremely useful actually. For us developers
> > especially.
>
> 'cp -al' + patch + xemacs does this for me with the linux source tree in
> user space.

As Pavel noted, provided you remember only to use safe programs and are
absolutely sure that nothing, including the commands in the Makefile you
haven't read, will overwrite a file, you are safe.

Come to think of it, chmod -R a-w would be enough to guarantee that for
all reasonable programs.

Except Emacs. Some of us turn on backup-by-copying-when-linked even
though it breaks the `cp -al' method because turning it off breaks other
things. Perhaps I should code an elisp "if editing in /usr/src turn off
backup-by-copying-when-linked". :-)

enjoy,
-- Jamie

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