Actually there is a mature discipline around data changes that
dates back to before Unix v7, but it's off-topic for this
discussion: it would make the changes too big (;-))
If anyone is interested, see http://multicians.org/stachour.html
and/or send me mail
--dave (reading LKML when he should be working) c-b
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