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| -rw-r--r-- | lisp/startup.el | 3 |
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diff --git a/lisp/startup.el b/lisp/startup.el index 8350da23658..1bb948ea0a8 100644 --- a/lisp/startup.el +++ b/lisp/startup.el @@ -386,6 +386,9 @@ or `CVS', and any subdirectory that contains a file named `.nosearch'." (save-excursion (set-buffer (get-buffer "*Messages*")) (setq default-directory dir))) + ;; For root, preserve owner and group when editing files. + (if (equal (user-uid) 0) + (setq backup-by-copying-when-mismatch t)) ;; Look in each dir in load-path for a subdirs.el file. ;; If we find one, load it, which will add the appropriate subdirs ;; of that dir into load-path, |