Re: Problems with hardlinks

On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 10:18, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> I guess we could make this more complex... make
> a tmp copy of the working file, patch it, delete the original, copy
> the tmp file back?

If understand what you said right, we'd just stop using diff3 -e; that
is, we'd spit out the appropriately marked up file into a temp file,
then rename the temp file onto the original.

I'm sure diff3 -e starts out by making a copy of the original file under
the covers. Unix certainly has no concept of "editing a file in place";
you can overwrite data in place, but you can't insert or delete stuff.

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Received on Mon Oct 7 16:51:25 2002