On Thu, June 3, 2010 6:31 pm, Victor Duchovni wrote: > On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 06:00:26PM -0000, Pau Amma wrote: > >> foo.cf: dbConf.cf.in foo.cf.in >> cat dbConf.cf.in foo.cf.in > foo.cf > > Make that: > > foo.cf: dbConf.cf.in foo.cf.in > $(RM) -f foo.cf.tmp > cat dbConf.cf.in foo.cf.in > foo.cf.tmp > mv foo.cf.tmp foo.cf > > automated code must be robust, and so must not overwrite configuration > files directly. For full reliability, that "cat" can be replaced by > something that "fsync()s" the output file.
I stand corrected. :goes back to his sandbox.
