Excerpts from Helmut Grohne's message of Mon Dec 05 15:54:19 +0100 2011: > Hi Michal, > > On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 12:41:21AM +0100, Michal Suchanek wrote: > > Excerpts from Helmut Grohne's message of Sat Dec 03 17:33:04 +0100 2011: > is not clear what "this issue" is. > > > Please read the analysis in the latter message. > > I think we should split this up in two issues: > > 1) Not checking the return value of close(). > > This is a very real bug in openssh, but not in coreutils (seem my > analysis). > > 2) Not fsyncing the files before closeing them. > > It is not the job of cp nor scp to guarantee that any file has reached > the disk. So this "bug" will not be fixed. If it was their job, tools > like sync(1) would not exist in the first place. If it was, you could > file this bug report against every single package handling files in the > archive (except for a handful). Since that would be insane, I simply > dropped this request in my previous reply. I should have made this more > explicit. > > Can we now ignore 2) and concentrate on 1)?
No. If I wanted this semantics I could use shred(1). I want my files saved. Note that this same issue has been found and fixed in dpkg. Thanks Michal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
