Petri Lehtinen added the comment: Thinking about this again, I guess the original design rationale was not to prepare for crashes, but for the ease of implementation. It's not generally possible to rewrite the mailbox fully in-place, because the messages are not loaded into memory. If the order of messages changes, for example, a message can be overwritten in the mailbox file, and its contents need to be read afterwards.
Mutt copes with this by writing the changes to a temporary file, and then copying them over to the original file. This is what we should also be doing. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue15122> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
