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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!menudo.uh.edu!uuneo!sugar!peter From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: File Truncation Philosophy Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900 Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1993 23:34:10 GMT Message-ID: <C5G44z.8A5@sugar.neosoft.com> References: <1993Apr8.025858.22137@uvm.edu> <1993Apr11.035322.19610@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <C5FJx6.o5w@ns1.nodak.edu> Lines: 11 In article <C5FJx6.o5w@ns1.nodak.edu> tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu (Mark Tinguely) writes: > the dumb approach. > Once the file starts executing, fail writes to the file. Better: if the file is open for writing, fail the exec. The file is probably in an inconsistent state anyway, and it doesn't make sense to trust it. -- Peter da Silva. <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>. `-_-' Oletko halannut suttasi tänään? 'U` Tarjoilija, tämä ateria elää vielä.