On 07/30/2012 11:20 PM, Mantas M. wrote: > 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. Why's that "atomic"? I see a race in between the unlink and the creat call. I'd tend to consider such editor mode "unlucky" for use with vipw. Have a nice day, Berny -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
