On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 06:19:35PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 05:02:00PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > > Hi, > > > > in bug #275140, I was made aware of a problem with the handling of > > tempfiles in tetex's maintainer scripts, and it seems to be a general > > problem. Basically, we do > > > > tempfile=`mktemp` > > echo something > $tempfile > > > > and this will fail if the noclobber option is set in the executing > > shell, because after mktemp the $tempfile exists. > > > > It is easy to fix this: > > > > echo something >| $tempfile > > > > but both I and the bug submitter were puzzled that we didn't find any > > previous discussions about the topic. Obviously, noclobber is only > > rarely used (otherwise we would have gotten bugreports earlier), 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED], 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. > > Now, does POSIX sh support >| ?
Yes. Regards: David Weinehall -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Northern lights wander (\ // Maintainer of the v2.0 kernel // Dance across the winter sky // \) http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/ (/ Full colour fire (/
