On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 03:30:29PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > > name the temp file properly, and teach your program to clean old ones up > > *safely* (see vim swap file handling for an example) when it starts. > > What about restoring meta-data? File-owner? owner, permissions, acl, xattrs, and whatever other future stuff can be stored about files, which then all applications should be made aware of? Yay for simplicity. Mike