Re: Bug#20241: Timezones should depend on debian-utils

[dark@xs4all.nl (Richard Braakman)]

Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> Well I'm not one for a living but it is one of my hobbies. This thread is
> long enough as it is but I just can't resist. /bin/sh is a Posix shell,
> so why not simply use:
> 
> set -C
> : > /tmp/tempfile.$$ || exit 1
> set +C
> 
> set -C causes a Posix shell to open files with O_EXCL

I investigated that :-) Doesn't work.  Bash, at least, only refrains
from clobbering _regular_ files, and will still happily write to
devices and such.  (Try making link from the tempfile to /dev/null and
watch the strace. No O_EXCL).

Richard Braakman


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