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From: Dave Mason <dmason@plg.uwaterloo.ca>
Message-Id: <199612161431.JAA21057@plg.uwaterloo.ca>
To: xemacs-beta@xemacs.org
Subject: 0 length files on full disk (I hope this isn't a stupid question)
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I push emacs on all sorts of people, partly because ``you can't
accidentally lose files'' because of auto-save, backup files, etc.

It now turns out that C-X C-S doesn't even complain if the write
fails.  auto-save also happily says that it has auto-saved, but
there's a nice 0-byte autosave file!!!  C-X C-C asks to save dirty
buffers, then writes 0 bytes and exits!!!  I know this used to work
until about 19.13.

I know disk is cheap, but we have student quotas, and some students
have lost assignments because of this.

Is there some flag I have been unable to find that turns this on?

	emacs-version's value is "19.14 XEmacs Lucid"
		(and it's the pre-compiled binary)

I think this should definitely be fixed before 19.15 ships!

../Dave

