[PATCH] ash: <> redir should not truncate
Andreas Bühmann
buehmann at users.berlios.de
Wed Jun 23 12:35:00 UTC 2010
Hi,
I believe the redirection operator <> in ash misbehaves: It must not
truncate
the opened file. (Debian's dash seems to have the same bug; bash, zsh,
and ksh
work fine on a script like this: "echo foo > tmp; cat 0<> tmp".)
Regards,
Andreas
---
shell/ash.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/shell/ash.c b/shell/ash.c
index f581b5b..1f8f90a 100644
--- a/shell/ash.c
+++ b/shell/ash.c
@@ -4938,7 +4938,7 @@ openredirect(union node *redir)
break;
case NFROMTO:
fname = redir->nfile.expfname;
- f = open(fname, O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0666);
+ f = open(fname, O_RDWR|O_CREAT, 0666);
if (f < 0)
goto ecreate;
break;
--
1.7.0.4
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