Re: emacs early on could have known it could not write a non owned file

[Gerd Moellmann]

Dan Jacobson <jidanni@deadspam.com> writes:

> Be root and
> # touch /tmp/a
> now as a regular user, try to C-x C-w /tmp/a some file.
> File `/tmp/a' exists; overwrite? (y or n) y
> File a is write-protected; try to save anyway? (yes or no) yes
> Doing chmod: operation not permitted, /tmp/a
> 
> Ok, Emacs, being college educated, should, instead giving me two quiz
> questions, have detected the certain failure way back at line zero,
> and so informed the user.  [root excepted: root should only get the
> first warning...]

Any chance you implement this, Dan?