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Re: [perl #1154] -pi doesn't sanely handle write errors

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From:
Chip Salzenberg
Date:
December 1, 2008 22:44
Subject:
Re: [perl #1154] -pi doesn't sanely handle write errors
Message ID:
20081202064336.GP31089@tytlal.topaz.cx
On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 09:46:32PM -0700, Tom Christiansen wrote:
> Um, Chip, are people *really* claiming that fixing the -i output 
> flush bug is something that would be "backwards incompatible", 
> and thus prequire some notice that such a thing is desired?!?

Heh, no.  We're now discussing a further level of safety: The renaming of
finished files to their target names *after* completed output, as opposed to
the status quo of renaming first and _then_ writing.
-- 
Chip Salzenberg   twitter:chipsalz
"UTOPIA PLANITIA IS IN ORBIT is the new HAN SHOT FIRST" - Crisper Than Thou

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