After the recent update to version 2.3.7 mintty prints the error message
Error: could not open log file: File exists.
: File exists <log file name>
every time I open a mintty window. I've tracked this down to the
following snippet (around line # 228) in child.c:
char * logf = newn(char, MAX_PATH + 1);
strftime (logf, MAX_PATH, log, localtime (& now.tv_sec));
free(log);
log = logf;
}
log_fd = open(log, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_EXCL, 0600);
if (log_fd < 0) {
// report message and filename:
childerror("could not open log file", false);
childerror(log, false);
}
The culprit seems to be the open invocation with the combination of
flags; possibly pointing to
a problem in the corresponding cygwin.dll implementation.
Please let me know if you need more details.
Thanks, Chris
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