Paul Koning wrote: >> Paolo Carlini wrote: >> guaranteeing atomicity/preventing corrupted sandbox? > > Not just crude, but wrong. You can't get atomicity (or rather, > transactional integrity) that way, because blocking ^C doesn't block > SIGKILL, or panics, or power failures, or (in the case of operations > involving the server) network failures.
Yeah; as I discovered in that final URL, it's purely to try and protect your local sandbox from getting damaged. And sure, it's only a best effort. cheers, DaveK