On 5/5/2012 3:13 PM, MBR wrote:
That's becoming clear. I'm trying to understand the difference. It seems like versioning is having the operating system do for all files what emacs does for text files.
Yes.
And with regard to OS's that do versioning in the filesystem, when does it decide I've made a new version? Would my habit of frequently using an
The most common case is when the kernel receives an open for write call. It's when the OS sees the open/write, not what the application thinks of as "open". Every C-x C-s in Emacs is a new open/write and will increment the version count.
Programs that create log files and write to databases need to do things a little differently on VMS than they do on UNIX.
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