ok -- let's then just wait for Dave's feedback -- it might be that this all came up purely from code introspection and indeed not pertinent per se.
On Tue, 09 Oct 2012, Albert Chu wrote: > > * debian/patches/0002_excel_when_opening_tmp.patch: Open files with > O_EXCL. > Sorry, I think I got confused when I first read this and the code. > Now that I'm looking through the code, the debug data is dumped > to /var/log/ipmiconsole. It's only when FreeIPMI is being compiled in > debug/developer mode that files are temporarily stored in /tmp. So we > shouldn't consider the storage of files into /tmp the normal > production/release case. > So I'm even more confused now on the need for O_EXCL. The production > case is exactly what you'd want. Files stored into /var/log/ipmiconsole > and already existing is ok. besides two ipmiconsoles trying to write into the same file, right -- or do you expect that work just fine? -- Yaroslav O. Halchenko Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, NH 03755 Phone: +1 (603) 646-9834 Fax: +1 (603) 646-1419 WWW: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
