On Sun, Nov 14, 1999 at 01:15:13PM +0100, Boris Lutz wrote:
| > I don't have my bookmarks file itself readable.
| > Instead, I have a program to unpack it into a set of HTML pages.
| > In a permission preserving way, of course.
| That's a good workaround, I will just add a line in my cron script that
| does this.
| However I think the behavior of netscape is not the way it should be :-(
| Would be easier if it would just edit the file not replace it.
I quite agree. It also breaks hard links and suchlike.
I loathe and despise most programs which make new copies of things.
There's a school of thought for the make-new-copy approach which takes
the line that this lets you make the new copy and do lots of error
checking (which is very desirable) and if anything goes wrong you have
but to omit the final rename and the original is undamaged.
Personally, I take the view that the links and perms (and weirdo ownerships
you can't recreate as a mortal, such as can obtain in shared work areas, or
weirdo OS-specific attributes the rewriting program _need_know_nothing_about_
like ACLs) are part of the file. The careful can always take a careful _copy_
of the original and only proceed with the rewrite if the copy succeeds.
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This means that someone has scribbled with pencil in the test area
on the card. Erase the pencil mark and reboot. (This is not a joke).
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