Re: vipw does not work with some editors

[Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 12:20:10AM +0300, Mantas M. wrote:
> Some editors, such as Vim with 'writebackup' mode enabled, use "atomic
> save" in which the old file is deleted and a new one with the same name
> created in its place. When `vipw` is used with such an editor, it never
> detects changes, because it compares fstat() on a file descriptor
> pointing to the old file.
> 
> Can this be fixed in `vipw`, or should I just start configuring Vim to
> stop making backups for vipw's temporary files?

hmm.. vipw from shadow-utils uses stat() rather than fstat(), so it
depends on filename only. Maybe we can use the same solution.

    Karel


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