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Dax Kelson
dax at gurulabs.com
Fri Mar 17 14:39:36 UTC 2006
...... Original Message .......
On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 08:14:14 -0500 "Daniel Veillard" <veillard at redhat.com>
wrote:
>that I don't understand, why should vim deal with ACL or SELinux ???
>
This feature was first introduced with the vim shipped with Red Hat Linux 9.
When you edit a file and save, behind the scenes, vim creates a new file
and once that operation has completed it replaces the original with the new
file. This is safer then doing a truncate and write to the original file as
you will lose data if there is a crash after the truncate but before the
write.
The safer technique requires extra work on vim's part to preserve metadata .
For file ACLs vim uses libacl.
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