Hi! Andrew Flerchinger schrieb: >> 1. Use mktemp to safely create a new, unique file >> 2. Send the decryption output to that file >> 3. Test if the "real" file exists, and if so unlink it >> 4. mv $newfile $realfilename >> > You're right, I could do that to make my work-around act atomic. Be careful, this is not necessarily atomic. You're assuming transactions where no such thing exists. If the system crashes in the wrong moment, you would have the real file unlinked and the renaming has not yet taken place. It might even be the case that the tempfile is not even persisted to disc.
I am not making this up, see for example the current discussion about the EXT4 data loss issue: <http://www.h-online.com/open/Possible-data-loss-in-Ext4--/news/112821> cu, Sven _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
