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Wait, my intented question was, `do those backup files have the executable permission bits set'? Not `do they hold valid input for interpreter/CPU'. In Slackwa
by dexen 15y ago
Wait, my intented question was, `do those backup files have the executable permission bits set'? Not `do they hold valid input for interpreter/CPU'.
In Slackware's startup scripts, there's a good bunch of
if [ -x SOME_FILE ]; then # if the file is executable, run it
./SOME_FILE start
fi
which makes it trivial to enable/disable various services by simply chmod +x SOME_FILE / chmod -x SOME_FILE. If EMACS' backup files were marked as not executable by the editor, that would be `case closed' for me, no need to pay extra attention to characters in file names.
- ars 15y agoYes, backup files have the executable bit set. They have the same bits as the real file. They are in fact created by renaming the real file to the backup name, then saving the real file and copying the permissions.