Per Hedeland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sun, 17 Aug 2008 01:53:55 +0200:
> And of course Pan doesn't delete (and re-create) the file out of an evil > desire to circumvent the lack of write permissions on the file, it's > pretty much standard procedure when you update config files and the like > programatically. I.e. you create a *new* file (say servers.xml.tmp), > write the data to that, and then 'mv' (or rather rename()) it over the > old one. This has several advantages, notably that you don't end up with > a mess if the writing fails for some reason, and that the change is > atomic, i.e. there is never a file which is half-old and half-new. Well stated. =8^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
