On 2012-06-22, David Champion wrote: > * 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.
The last time I looked at this was a few years ago, so mutt's behavior could well have changed in the mean time. I just assumed it still did that. It seemed like an unusual, deliberate design decision that was not likely to change. Regards, Gary
