Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 15:18:24 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Cyrille Lefevre <cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net> Cc: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sed -i has difficulty with read-only files Message-ID: <20020727201824.GB16128@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20020727051224.GA7996@gits.dyndns.org> References: <20020726165021.C7551@chiark.greenend.org.uk> <20020727051224.GA7996@gits.dyndns.org>
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In the last episode (Jul 27), Cyrille Lefevre said:
> IMHO, both the old and the newer code are wrong. they should use
> getenv("TMPDIR") if any and certainly not the current directory.
> there is probably more room in ${TMPDIR:-/var/tmp} then in the
> current directory. imagine that the current fs is nearly full...
Don't you want to temp filename to be in exactly the same place as the
original file, so the rename() swap will work? If the current fs is
full, then sed -i will fail anyway.
--
Dan Nelson
dnelson@allantgroup.com
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