The editing is perfectlty safe. It is the reading of a file that is being changed that is unsafe.
Of course there's Microsoft Windows. >----- ------- Original Message ------- ----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: misc@openbsd.org >Sent: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 09:39:47 > >OM> I know this behaviour form every Unix system >I've worked on. Besides, >OM> the nice thing about the current way of doing >things is that you can >OM> read a script form a pipe and have the desired >behaviour without any >OM> special case code. > >This behavior has any advantages for regular files >? Compatibility ? > > If so, do any editor has option to safe editing >for this case ? >(of course, I always can do editor wraparound).
