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Re: mintty --log overwrites existing logfile in place
On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Christian Franke wrote:
> Agree, e.g. "--log +FILE" appends to FILE:
>
> client.c:
> ?// Open log file if any
> ?if (*cfg.log) {
> ? ?if (cfg.log[0] == '+' && cfg.log[1])
> ? ? ?log_fd = open(cfg.log+1, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_APPEND, 0600);
> ? ?else
> ? ? ?log_fd = open(cfg.log, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_TRUNC, 0600);
> ? ?if (log_fd < 0)
> ? ? ?error("open log file");
> ?}
I was thinking along the lines of a user preference. I don't like
magic file names. But it's up to Andy :)
Csaba
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