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Re: Any way to allow clobbering empty files when noclobber is set?
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- From: Roman Perepelitsa <roman.perepelitsa@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Subject: Re: Any way to allow clobbering empty files when noclobber is set?
- Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2020 07:41:52 +0200
- Cc: Martin Tournoij <martin@xxxxxxxxxx>
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The regular noclobber can use O_CREAT | O_EXCL to avoid races. How
would any of the proposed modifications work? That is, how to
implement unlink-if-empty without ever unlinking non-empty files? Or
how to implement clobber-if-empty without ever clobbering non-empty
files?
Roman.
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