On Mon, Apr 18, 2022 at 12:32:20AM -0400, James Cloos wrote: > the strace output ends with: > > openat(AT_FDCWD, "/var/lib/plocate/", O_WRONLY|O_LARGEFILE|O_TMPFILE, 0640) > = -1 EISDIR (Is a directory) > > i've only seen it on arm32 buster, though.
It shouldn't end there, though; if the kernel doesn't support O_TMPFILE (which suggests it's pretty old by now), it should fall back to mkstemp(). This was fixed in plocate 1.1.12. And in any case, it wouldn't then really be different from cron. Which version are you running? /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: https://www.sesse.net/
