bug#15819: colorls.csh errors out if "noclobber" is set (coreutils 8.21.11, Fedora19)

[Pádraig Brady]

tag 15819 notabug
close 15819
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On 11/06/2013 07:00 AM, Ty! Boyack wrote:
> Behavior:
> 
> The setup script /etc/profile.d/colorls.csh works fine in a stock F19
> installation, but if a local admin adds a default shell setting of
> "noclobber" in a profile setting that runs before this script (as we do)
> then the script will error out with an error of:
> 
> /tmp/.colorlsXXX: File exists.
> 
> Cause:
> 
> The script creates that temporary file with mktemp, but on the first
> write it uses only a single redirect (>), which fails when noclobber is set.
> 
> Since the file is already created, I think we can safely use an append
> redirect (>>) in all cases where that file is written to, which works
> regardless of the state of the noclobber settting.
> 
> Patch:
> 
> 35c35
> < if ( "$INCLUDE" != '' ) cat "$INCLUDE" > $TMP
> ---
>> if ( "$INCLUDE" != '' ) cat "$INCLUDE" >> $TMP
> 
> Disclaimer:
> 
> I know this is not against the latest source, but I did not see anything
> in the bug lists regarding this.  My apologies if this has already been
> looked at and fixed or dismissed.

"Include" support was added to the _Fedora_ ls color config files recently,
which broke things in various situations. Since this is not a upstream
issue, I'm closing it here and opened: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1027279

thanks,
Pádraig.