bug#6953: 24.0.50; serious security bug in create backup files

[Glenn Morris]

Mark Diekhans wrote:

>> Regardless of what other problems there might be, such backups should
>> probably go somewhere under ~/.emacs.d.
>
> This makes a lot of sense, and makes it possible to redirect to
> a different file system by setting user-emacs-directory.

We seem to have gone in a circle.

http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=6953#23