> > Such editors are broken. What if the file is a symlink ? IMHO
> > open() write() write() write() ftruncate() close() is the only way.
>
> If that is the only way, then emacs is of course broken. (And I
> disagree - I use emacs every day...)
Now there's an argument waiting to happen :-)
So if you create a file and make it writable by me and I edit it, it
becomes mine ? Good ol' emacs ! I would guess that in real life it
*must* be smart enough not to do this (I don't have access to emacs
from here right now).
> Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <brian@[uk.]FreeBSD.org>
<http://www.Awfulhak.org> <brian@[uk.]OpenBSD.org>
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