This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
- Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later
+ Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) any later
version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
{
struct stat file_stat;
+ assign_string (&before_backup_name, file_name);
+
+ /* A run situation may exist between Emacs or other GNU programs trying to
+ make a backup for the same file simultaneously. If theoretically
+ possible, real problems are unlikely. Doing any better would require a
+ convention, GNU-wide, for all programs doing backups. */
+
+ assign_string (&after_backup_name, 0);
+
/* Check if we really need to backup the file. */
if (this_is_the_archive && _remdev (file_name))
&& (S_ISBLK (file_stat.st_mode) || S_ISCHR (file_stat.st_mode)))
return true;
- assign_string (&before_backup_name, file_name);
-
- /* A run situation may exist between Emacs or other GNU programs trying to
- make a backup for the same file simultaneously. If theoretically
- possible, real problems are unlikely. Doing any better would require a
- convention, GNU-wide, for all programs doing backups. */
-
- assign_string (&after_backup_name, 0);
after_backup_name = find_backup_file_name (file_name, backup_type);
if (! after_backup_name)
xalloc_die ();