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Re: mintty --log overwrites existing logfile in place


On 4 August 2011 10:57, Christian Franke wrote:
> The mintty --log option is very useful but opens logfile without O_TRUNC
> or O_APPEND:

D'oh!

> mintty-1.0.1/child.c:
> Â// Open log file if any
> Âif (*cfg.log) {
> Â Âlog_fd = open(cfg.log, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT, 0600);
> Â Âif (log_fd < 0)
> Â Â Âerror("open log file");
> Â}
>
> Then it is sometimes difficult to determine where the new log output
> ends :-)
>
> I would suggest to add O_APPEND.

I'll ponder that. The original intention was O_TRUNC.

Thanks,
Andy

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