https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27972
Bug ID: 27972
Summary: gold leaves a broken output file behind when it's
interrupted; should clean up
Product: binutils
Version: 2.37 (HEAD)
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: P2
Component: gold
Assignee: ccoutant at gmail dot com
Reporter: johannes.abt at advantest dot com
CC: ian at airs dot com
Target Milestone: ---
In output.cc, gold opens the file for writing, it fallocates the necessary
space and then it starts writing. Without using a temporary file. If you
interrupt gold with Ctrl-C, it does not clean up.
Some build system do not clean up output files after an interrupt. During the
next run, they just see updated timestamp and go on with the build using the
broken output file.
That's why many build tools either
* use temporary files and use the atomic `rename()` call or
* (try to) clean up in an atexit handler (see `ld_cleanup()` in file `ldmain.c`
of GNU ld)
I keep getting files with the proper output size, containing anything but nul
bytes. That's quite annoying.
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