Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3E15C5A2.4020307@veritas.com> Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2003 09:17:22 -0800 From: Bob McGowan Organization: VERITAS Software, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Mecklenburg , bonzini@gnu.org CC: Cygwin Users List Subject: Re: sed -i problem? References: <200301031627.h03GRTRQ020947@wolf.cimsoft.com> <031401c2b34f$67eb5720$9783883e@pomello> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Some additional info, perhaps helpful in the final analysis - Supply a suffix to the -i option, the original gets renamed with the suffix appended, and the temp file gets renamed to the original name. This was found by checking the file dates from a long listing, not strace-ing the execution. This may also provide a work-around for Robert, requiring the removal of the backup file, but at least the original named file has the edited content, as desired. Bob Max Bowsher wrote: > Robert Mecklenburg wrote: > >>I seem to be having problem with the -i flag in sed 4.0.1 in the >>latest cygwin release. The docs state -i places output in a tmp file >>and renames the tmp to the original when finished. It appears the >>rename is not happening for me: > > [snip example] > > I did a quick bit of strace-ing, and it seems that sed isn't closing the > input and output files before doing the rename. Unsurprisingly, this fails > with "Access is denied.". > > But sed is trying to close the files. It gets as far as > lib/utils.c:ck_fclose(stream), but then it does something complicated with a > linked list, and ends up never calling do_ck_fclose(), which would actually > call fclose(). > > Right, I've got no more time now, so hopefully someone else will take my > analysis, and finish tracking down this bug. > > Max. > > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Bob McGowan Staff Development Engineer VERITAS Software rmcgowan@veritas.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/