Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 05:02:00PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: >> but I >> see no reason, neither in Policy nor in "common sense", why root >> shouldn't use it. On the other hand, this usage of mktemp has been >> the result of discussions on [EMAIL PROTECTED], and I'm quite >> sure to have seen it elsewhere. > > In my opinion, noclobber should only be set for interactive shell, or > explicitely in a shell-script. The same for most others shell options.
But if I start apt-get upgrade or whatever from my interactive shell with noclobber set, all childs will inherit it. That's how the problem came up. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer
