Replying because this is a good question and not fully answered...
The problem is not standards but compatibility, as stated.
What was not mentioned is that Debian switched the default /bin/sh
implementation from bash to a simpler POSIX shell (I think dash) not so long
ago. Naturally, they had
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> > Implementations MUST use a temporary file followed by an atomic
> > rename()
> > operation in order to avoid corruption due to two implementations writing
> > to the file at the same time. The fact that the changes from one of the
> > writers could get lost isn't an issue, the cache can be
On Wednesday 17 April 2013 10:12:22 David Faure wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 April 2013 09:03:22 Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > On tis, 2013-04-16 at 00:15 +0200, Ryan Lortie wrote:
> > > hi David,
> > >
> > > On 2013-04-15 18:47, David Faure wrote:
> > > > 16950 15803468 Documents
> > > > 2467 15803582 A
