Hi,
Gavin Smith writes:
> On 20 November 2015 at 22:53, Karl Berry wrote:
>> My $0.1, fwiw:
>>
>> 1) a signal handler seems crazy to me. That would imply every program
>> that writes anything should catch every signal just because someone
>> might interrupt it.
>>
>> 2) if I type "gcc foo.c
Hello,
Regarding a 'safer' way to replace files during installation:
On 11/20/2015 06:22 PM, Gavin Smith wrote:
On 20 November 2015 at 22:53, Karl Berry wrote:
3) all that said, writing to a temp file and renaming is at least
viable, although rather a pain and susceptible to many hard-to-pin-
On 20 November 2015 at 22:53, Karl Berry wrote:
> My $0.1, fwiw:
>
> 1) a signal handler seems crazy to me. That would imply every program
> that writes anything should catch every signal just because someone
> might interrupt it.
>
> 2) if I type "gcc foo.c" and hit ^C while it's compiling, I
My $0.1, fwiw:
1) a signal handler seems crazy to me. That would imply every program
that writes anything should catch every signal just because someone
might interrupt it.
2) if I type "gcc foo.c" and hit ^C while it's compiling, I do not
expect gcc to detect that and keep my previously-exis
Resending. I forgot to reply-all.
On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 3:19 AM, Gavin Smith
wrote:
> On 19 November 2015 at 21:48, Pedrum Mohageri
> wrote:
>
> > Details:
> >
> > I use Arch and the package manager bailed out on several packages during
> the
> > install. I traced this to a failed install-inf
Am 20.11.2015 um 12:19 schrieb Gavin Smith:
> On 19 November 2015 at 21:48, Pedrum Mohageri wrote:
>
>> Details:
>>
>> I use Arch and the package manager bailed out on several packages during the
>> install. I traced this to a failed install-info call to add entries for
>> package to the 'dir' th
On 19 November 2015 at 21:48, Pedrum Mohageri wrote:
> Details:
>
> I use Arch and the package manager bailed out on several packages during the
> install. I traced this to a failed install-info call to add entries for
> package to the 'dir' that info use.
>
> After strace'ng the code, I observe
