Re: Edit : cannot save on sshfs mounted file system

> Samuel Dionne-Riel <samuel@...> wrote:
>> What happens is that it creates a
>> temporary files, then has some troubles renaming it... thus it gives
>> me this traceback:
> This same behavior also causes other problems - for example, it has the
> side-effect of resetting permissions and extended attributes, every
> time the file is saved.
>
> Is there a reason for this behavior? Why can't it just try to overwrite
> the file in-place, like most other editors? The only obvious reason
> would be for atomicity (so that it doesn't write half the file and then
> fail); for which a better solution - again, adopted by some existing
> programs - would be to save a backup copy of the *old* version until
> it's done all it can to get the new version on disk.