Subject: Re: bug#15819: colorls.csh errors out if "noclobber" is set (coreutils 8.21.11, Fedora19)

From: Bernhard Voelker <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2013 14:09:13 +0100 (CET)

tag 15819 notabug
thanks

[added Ondrej]

> On November 6, 2013 at 8:00 AM Ty! Boyack <[email-masked]> wrote:
> Behavior:
>
> The setup script /etc/profile.d/colorls.csh works fine in a stock F19
> installation, but if a local admin adds a default shell setting of
> "noclobber" in a profile setting that runs before this script (as we do)
> then the script will error out with an error of:
>
> /tmp/.colorlsXXX: File exists.
>
> Cause:
>
> The script creates that temporary file with mktemp, but on the first
> write it uses only a single redirect (>), which fails when noclobber is set.
>
> Since the file is already created, I think we can safely use an append
> redirect (>>) in all cases where that file is written to, which works
> regardless of the state of the noclobber settting.
>
> Patch:
>
> 35c35
> < if ( "$INCLUDE" != '' ) cat "$INCLUDE" > $TMP
> ---
> > if ( "$INCLUDE" != '' ) cat "$INCLUDE" >> $TMP

The file 'colorls.csh' is not part of the upstream project
but rather an Fedora extension.  I'm therefore marking this bug
as 'done'.

It seems this particular issue has been fixed for F20 only:
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=f0b6f85aff0496c51c8fcb58197a8a132949a4e5

@Ondrej: do you plan to merge this to F19?

Have a nice day,
Berny