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:
> // Open log file if any
> if (*cfg.log) {
> log_fd = open(cfg.log, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT, 0600);
> if (log_fd < 0)
> error("open log file");
> }
>
> 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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