Steffen Daode Nurpmeso <sdao...@googlemail.com> added the comment: On Thu, 5 May 2011 13:42:29 +0200, R. David Murray wrote: > what does mutt do in the case you are talking about?
16 -rwxr-s--- 1 steffen mail 14832 23 Jan 19:13 usr/bin/mutt_bitlock set bitlock_program="~/usr/bin/mutt_bitlock -p" I see. Unfortunately the world is not even almost perfect. So should f?truncate(2) be used if the resulting file is empty? > what does mutt do in the case you are talking about? Otherwise there is only one solution: a mailbox-is-readonly policy has to be introduced. That will surely drive users insane which see that they in fact have write access to the file. Python has got bad cards. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue11935> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com