On May 15, 2010, at 11:04, Kris Buelens wrote: > One pipeline that writes two times to a given file is asking for trouble. > At least, that was always my experience. > Thanks. I'll avoid it. Also because of COPYFILE UNPACK's better error reporting than PIPE UNPACK's.
>> I toyed with the idea of: >> >> PIPE < fn PLCDP I | FBLOCK 1024 | > fn PLCD I FIXED 1024 | UNPACK | > fn >> PLCD I >> >> ... letting the final implied rename clean up the FIXED 1024 file which >> is created only for error checking. But: >> >> o Is there any guarantee of the order in which the renames occur? >> I suppose it may depend on whether the earlier stage sooner renames the target file or severs its output. -- gil
