From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13214 invoked from network); 23 Apr 1998 18:50:00 -0000 Received: from math.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 23 Apr 1998 18:50:00 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by math.gatech.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA15121; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 14:44:46 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 14:44:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Main Message-Id: <199804231844.TAA27146@taos.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: PATCH: NO_CLOBBER To: pws@ifh.de (Peter Stephenson) Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 19:44:36 +0100 (BST) Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu In-Reply-To: <199804231422.QAA15790@sgi.ifh.de> from "Peter Stephenson" at Apr 23, 98 04:22:11 pm X-Loop: zefram@tao.co.uk X-Phase: The Moon is Waning Crescent (11% of Full) X-Stardate: [-30]1048.90 X-US-Congress: moronic fuckers X-Headers: OTT X-Mouse: +++ ????? +++ Out Of Cheese Error. Redo From Start. X-Parrot: no, it's only resting. X-Personality: INTJ X-email-is-not-HTML: X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: <"G_JNw1.0.Ai3.TmuFr"@math> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/3865 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu Peter Stephenson wrote: > /etc/zshrc: file exists: /dev/null [243] Ah, sorry, it appears that I misremebered POSIX, and it's actually ksh that's got it wrong. POSIX.2 clase 3.7.2: "Output redirection using the > format shall fail if the noclobber option is set ... and the file named ... exists and is a regular file.". So don't use that patch; I'll send a better one tomorrow. -zefram