mintty --log overwrites existing logfile in place

Andy Koppe andy.koppe@gmail.com
Fri Aug 5 20:39:00 GMT 2011


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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