[ale] inode change after vi a file ?

Jesse Guardiani jesse at wingnet.net
Thu Mar 30 15:43:51 EST 2006


Chris Ricker wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, Jerry Yu wrote:

[...]

>> I see it as a bug personally. wonder whether/how oowriter and nano do 
>> reliable atomic writes. also wonder how vi on Solaris does it.
> 
> They don't

Well, as I said, neither does VIM, at least not the way I use it.
I usually break out `mv` to get the job done right.




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