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

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