Re: Safe file update library ready (sort of)

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Shachar Shemesh writes ("Safe file update library ready (sort of)"):
> This is not a formal release just yet (plus one function is still 
> missing an implementation, trivial though it might be). It's just that 
> the list obviously has a few people knowledgeable on the subject who can 
> give my code a second look and see whether there is anything I have missed.

I think this kind of approach is the wrong way to solve most instances
of this kind of problem.  A better way is userv, which I wrote over a
decade ago and have been using with success on chiark since.

Ian.