Re: 'touch' from setgid-perlscript

["Peter Tobias" <tobias@server.et-inf.fho-emden.de>]

Richard Kettlewell wrote:
> >I have a perl-script which does a `/usr/bin/touch FILE`
> 
> Consider using this:
> 
> 	open(TMP, ">FILE") || die "FILE: $!"; close TMP;
> 
> instead.  Life's too short to fork+exec just to create a file.

Better use ">>FILE". It won't truncate the file if it already
exist.


Thanks,

Peter

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