From: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Any way to allow clobbering empty files when noclobber is set?
Date: Sat, 06 Jun 2020 17:24:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ffd420f448c3b5372920e0a45d1a1a74ee7a541c.camel@ntlworld.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH+w=7bEkZ10xqQcXSyqeJQHVLT4VrLAOMttC-2OKnTDiFNQdA@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, 2020-06-06 at 08:24 -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> Just to clarify: O_CREAT|O_EXCL is actually the NO_clobber-ing open.
> The clobbering open is just to open it for writing if allowed to. and
> start scribbling over whatever is there.
You're right; in the hypothesised case, the file already exists and
this pair of options is documented to fail in that case.
I think the O_TRUNC is therefore the crucial one in our normal clobbering
open, right?
/* If clobbering, just open. */
if (isset(CLOBBER) || IS_CLOBBER_REDIR(f->type))
return open(unmeta(f->name),
O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_TRUNC | O_NOCTTY, 0666);
We'll truncate at that point, then start writing. That's the best
we can do. If anyone else is also writing to at *at that point*
--- out of luck, only file locking will help.
> Consequently we should be looking at this as an entirely interactive
> user DWIM feature, and choosing how to implement (or not to) based on
> that.
Yes, I certainly agree with that.
pws
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-06 16:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <CGME20200603020919eucas1p13e26ebcbb335784d14bfb97b137f385a@eucas1p1.samsung.com>
2020-06-03 2:08 ` Martin Tournoij
2020-06-03 12:04 ` Peter Stephenson
2020-06-04 1:48 ` Daniel Shahaf
2020-06-04 2:43 ` Bart Schaefer
2020-06-04 4:06 ` Daniel Shahaf
2020-06-04 5:00 ` Bart Schaefer
2020-06-05 3:10 ` Daniel Shahaf
2020-06-05 3:18 ` Daniel Shahaf
2020-06-06 1:07 ` Bart Schaefer
2020-06-06 4:48 ` Daniel Shahaf
2020-06-06 7:04 ` Bart Schaefer
2020-06-04 6:31 ` Martin Tournoij
2020-06-05 2:22 ` Daniel Shahaf
2020-06-04 2:13 ` Vin Shelton
2020-06-04 2:35 ` Bart Schaefer
2020-06-04 2:36 ` Daniel Shahaf
2020-06-04 11:57 ` Vin Shelton
2020-06-04 5:06 ` Bart Schaefer
2020-06-04 5:41 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2020-06-05 2:07 ` Daniel Shahaf
2020-06-05 4:38 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2020-06-06 1:41 ` Bart Schaefer
2020-06-06 4:55 ` Daniel Shahaf
2020-06-06 6:25 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2020-06-06 7:08 ` Bart Schaefer
2020-06-06 8:03 ` Daniel Shahaf
[not found] ` <1941572212.466119.1591360860372@mail2.virginmedia.com>
[not found] ` <e7f7dfe2-eb4a-457b-85fb-091935a74c0e@www.fastmail.com>
2020-06-06 11:57 ` Peter Stephenson
2020-06-06 12:48 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2020-06-06 15:24 ` Bart Schaefer
2020-06-06 16:24 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2020-06-07 11:55 ` Daniel Shahaf
2020-06-07 17:00 ` Peter Stephenson
2020-06-08 3:27 ` Daniel Shahaf
2020-06-08 9:30 ` Peter Stephenson
2020-06-07 17:20 ` Bart Schaefer
2020-06-06 15:09 ` Bart Schaefer
2020-06-04 6:47 ` Martin Tournoij
2020-06-04 9:42 ` Peter Stephenson
2020-06-04 12:20 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2020-06-04 12:26 ` Peter Stephenson
2020-06-04 12:15 ` Peter Stephenson
2020-06-04 20:35 ` Bart Schaefer
2020-06-05 1:59 ` Daniel Shahaf
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