* On 22 Jun 2012, Gary Johnson wrote: > > But that would defeat the purpose of the copy which is to have a > stable file for LibreOffice to read while allowing mutt to wipe and > delete its temporary file. A hard link would work if it wasn't that > mutt wipes the file before unlinking it.
The last time I worried about this, mutt didn't zero out temporary files before unlinking them. If it does that now then hard links are not a solution. If only every OS had a modern filesystem with copy on write available at the file level to unprivileged users. Maybe a COW shim (FUSE?) using sparse backing store of rewritten blocks over an arbitrary backend fs.... -- David Champion • d...@uchicago.edu • IT Services • University of Chicago
