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Re: mmap visited files?
From: |
Karl Eichwalder |
Subject: |
Re: mmap visited files? |
Date: |
Mon, 18 Feb 2002 18:37:04 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) |
wolfgang+gnus20020217T203020@dailyplanet.wsrcc.com (Wolfgang Rupprecht) writes:
> If the program crashes, the data in the mmaped buffers still gets
> flushed to the underlying disk file by the OS.
I like Emacs concept to deal with files more: only override files when
the user says so. It often happens I visit a file and want to save the
buffer holding file contents with a different name.
In case of a crash auto-saved files are good enough.
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