From: "Steve [RubyTalk]" <steve_rubytalk@...>
Date: 2005-12-02T03:55:40+09:00
Subject: Re: What is the best way to edit a file to eliminate a line

zdennis wrote:
> Hope this works better...
It will still permanently and irrecoverably loose data if the process 
terminates (e.g. a process hard-limit is exceeded, an administrator 
kills the process explicitly; or an old-fashioned power-cut etc.) just 
after starting to write the updated file... so I wouldn't consider it 
sufficiently robust for my purposes.