Re: Redirections and noclobber
On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 10:18:09AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
> 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.
How ? noclobber is not part of the environment so is not carried out
by fork() and shells launched by dpkg should not be interative.
bash-2.05a$ set -C
bash-2.05a$ echo a >bar
bash-2.05a$ echo b >bar
bash: bar: cannot overwrite existing file
bash-2.05a$ ./test.sh
b
bash-2.05a$ cat test.sh
#! /bin/sh
echo a >foo
echo b >foo
cat foo
So I am really interested to know what happens here.
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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