View Single Post
Old 10-08-2014, 04:37 AM   #11
BetterRed
null operator (he/him)
BetterRed ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.BetterRed ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.BetterRed ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.BetterRed ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.BetterRed ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.BetterRed ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.BetterRed ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.BetterRed ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.BetterRed ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.BetterRed ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.BetterRed ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
Posts: 21,847
Karma: 30277270
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Sydney Australia
Device: none
Quote:
Originally Posted by kovidgoyal View Post
Yes, its true on all OSes. The hardlink clones are used for the checkpointing system, not saving the book. Saving creates a temp file in the same folder as the original. Writes all the changes to it, and if everything works renames it to the original atomically, that way the editor can never corrupt the original in case of a crash or power failure during saving.
Aaah, I read your orig post as meaning the copy was created when book was opened.

BR
BetterRed is online now   Reply With Quote