Package: wwwoffle
Version: 2.9-2
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/wwwoffle-tools

Gentlemen, wwwoffle-write, upon intending to overwrite a file, just
allows it to grow. Certainly very wrong.

# seq 11|wwwoffle-write $u/ooo
# wwwoffle-ls $u/ooo
D4hd3vADAP98rcpY53TgYMA      24 Nov  6  9:46 http://blog.linux.org.tw/ooo
# seq 22|wwwoffle-write $u/ooo
# wwwoffle-ls $u/ooo
D4hd3vADAP98rcpY53TgYMA      57 Nov  6  9:47 http://blog.linux.org.tw/ooo
# seq 15|wwwoffle-write $u/ooo
# wwwoffle-ls $u/ooo
D4hd3vADAP98rcpY53TgYMA      57 Nov  6  9:47 http://blog.linux.org.tw/ooo

Indeed, it is not say, appending, but overwriting the beginning!:
# echo abcdefg|wwwoffle-write $u/mmm
# echo 123| wwwoffle-write $u/mmm
# wwwoffle-read $u/mmm
123
efg

At least the man page should warn to do a wwwoffle-rm first.


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