Re: Redirections and noclobber

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Bill Allombert <allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 05:02:00PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
>> but I
>> see no reason, neither in Policy nor in "common sense", why root
>> shouldn't use it. On the other hand, this usage of mktemp has been
>> the result of discussions on debian-tetex-maint@l.d.o, and I'm quite
>> sure to have seen it elsewhere.
>
> In my opinion, noclobber should only be set for interactive shell, or
> explicitely in a shell-script. The same for most others shell options.

But if I start apt-get upgrade or whatever from my interactive shell
with noclobber set, all childs will inherit it. That's how the problem
came up.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer