On 04/12/2012 08:20 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 04/12/2012 03:04 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: >> Pádraig Brady wrote: >> ... >>> So thinking a bit more about this, >>> and given the confusion expressed in the above bug report, >>> perhaps it's best to change --attributes-only to >>> _not_ truncate existing files? >>> >>> I think scripts relying on the truncation behavior >>> of this relatively new feature would be very rare, >>> and the non truncating behavior is more generally useful. >>> >>> Patch to implement this change is attached. >> >> Thanks for doing this. >> I prefer the new non-truncating behavior, too. > > Cool. > > I'll push with your clean-ups later on. > Eric is it OK to close this bug, > or are there cases not handled yet? > (I didn't fully understand your suggestion TBH).
Yes, I closed the bug now. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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