vipw does not work with some editors

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Some editors, such as Vim with 'writebackup' mode enabled, use "atomic
save" in which the old file is deleted and a new one with the same name
created in its place. When `vipw` is used with such an editor, it never
detects changes, because it compares fstat() on a file descriptor
pointing to the old file.

Can this be fixed in `vipw`, or should I just start configuring Vim to
stop making backups for vipw's temporary files?

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Mantas Mikulėnas <grawity@xxxxxxxxx>
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