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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: Martijn Dekker <martijn@inlv.org>, zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: '>>' does not create file if set -C (noclobber) is active
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 18:49:16 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <150624184916.ZM19079@torch.brasslantern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <558B5342.2090706@inlv.org>

On Jun 25,  3:02am, Martijn Dekker wrote:
}
} If the 'noclobber' option (set -C) is active, the append ('>>') output
} redirection will not create a file if it doesn't exist.
} 
} POSIX:

The noclobber option is an extension, and has nothing whatsoever to do
with POSIX.  It is not normally on in any emulation, so as soon as you
set it you're off in the weeds and appeal to POSIX is meaningless.

This is working the way it's intended to work.


  reply	other threads:[~2015-06-25  1:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-25  1:02 Martijn Dekker
2015-06-25  1:49 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2015-06-25  2:22   ` Martijn Dekker
2015-06-25  7:30     ` Bart Schaefer
2015-06-25 14:04       ` Stephane Chazelas
2015-06-25 16:00         ` Bart Schaefer
2015-06-25 19:20           ` Chet Ramey
2015-06-26 14:14       ` Martijn Dekker
2015-06-26 20:15         ` Bart Schaefer
2015-06-27  1:54           ` Martijn Dekker
2015-06-27  3:38             ` Bart Schaefer
2015-06-27 17:02         ` Peter Stephenson
2015-06-28  0:02           ` Martijn Dekker
2015-06-28  0:46             ` Martijn Dekker
2015-06-28  7:48             ` Stephane Chazelas
2015-06-28  9:15               ` Oliver Kiddle
2015-06-28 14:00                 ` Stephane Chazelas
2015-06-28 18:38                   ` Bart Schaefer
2015-06-28 19:30                     ` Stephane Chazelas
2015-07-23  2:56                     ` PATCH: sysopen (was Re: '>>' does not create file if set -C (noclobber) is active) Oliver Kiddle
2015-07-24 10:57                       ` Peter Stephenson
2015-07-24 11:55                         ` Peter Stephenson
2015-07-30 11:05                           ` Mikael Magnusson
2015-07-31 12:41                         ` Oliver Kiddle
2015-07-31 14:02                           ` Mikael Magnusson
2015-06-28 17:19             ` '>>' does not create file if set -C (noclobber) is active Peter Stephenson

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