bug#13522: 24.2; save-buffer removes edited file under some conditions

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> Is it "C-c to kill Emacs" as in "terminate Emacs with a fatal signal",
> or is it "C-x C-c" as in "exit Emacs in an orderly fashion"?
>
> If the former, then in general killing a program when it is in the
> middle of writing files isn't guaranteed to preserve those files.

It's the former (sort of).

And, yes, we make no guarantees, but the present situation doesn't seem
optimal.  The user may well hit `C-z' at the prompt and wonder where the
file disappeared to.

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