bug#13028: inplace

2022-09-12 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 12/09/2022 09:07, Reuben Thomas wrote: On Mon, 16 May 2016 at 15:42, Pádraig Brady mailto:p...@draigbrady.com>> wrote: I just don't have the time at present to complete this. I did implement ACID file replacement using POSIX APIs a while ago in:

bug#13028: inplace

2022-09-12 Thread Reuben Thomas via GNU coreutils Bug Reports
On Mon, 16 May 2016 at 15:42, Pádraig Brady wrote: > > I just don't have the time at present to complete this. > > I did implement ACID file replacement using POSIX APIs a while ago in: > https://github.com/pixelb/crudini > The commit messages there have details on fsync()ing requirements etc. >

bug#13028: inplace

2016-05-16 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 16/05/16 14:47, Reuben Thomas wrote: On 16 May 2016 at 14:42, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 16/05/16 14:15, Reuben Thomas wrote: ​Did this get anywhere? Nothing public unfortunately. ​Are there difficulties one might be able to help with? I just don't have the

bug#13028: inplace

2016-05-16 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 16 May 2016 at 14:42, Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 16/05/16 14:15, Reuben Thomas wrote: > >> >> ​Did this get anywhere? >> > > Nothing public unfortunately. ​Are there difficulties one might be able to help with? -- http://rrt.sc3d.org

bug#13028: inplace

2016-05-16 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 16/05/16 14:15, Reuben Thomas wrote: On 29 November 2012 at 19:16, Pádraig Brady wrote: On 11/29/2012 07:03 PM, Reuben Thomas wrote: On 29 November 2012 15:35, Pádraig Brady wrote: I definitely think this is worthwhile. Great! Where to

bug#13028: inplace

2012-11-30 Thread David A. Wheeler
On 11/29/2012 03:20 PM, Reuben Thomas wrote: On Fri, 14 May 2004 15:53:04 +0600 (YEKST), Victor Porton offered his handy inplace script to coreutils, which runs a filter on a file in-place... Pádraig Brady p...@draigbrady.com said: I definitely think this is worthwhile. In fact I mostly

bug#13028: inplace

2012-11-29 Thread Reuben Thomas
On Fri, 14 May 2004 15:53:04 +0600 (YEKST), Victor Porton offered his handy inplace script to coreutils, which runs a filter on a file in-place. A couple of replies said there was no need for this as one could do in-place editing with perl or sed, but I think that was misguided, as the point of

bug#13028: inplace

2012-11-29 Thread Ruediger Meier
On Thursday 29 November 2012, Reuben Thomas wrote: On Fri, 14 May 2004 15:53:04 +0600 (YEKST), Victor Porton offered his handy inplace script to coreutils, which runs a filter on a file in-place. A couple of replies said there was no need for this as one could do in-place editing with perl or

bug#13028: inplace

2012-11-29 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 11/29/2012 03:20 PM, Reuben Thomas wrote: On Fri, 14 May 2004 15:53:04 +0600 (YEKST), Victor Porton offered his handy inplace script to coreutils, which runs a filter on a file in-place. A couple of replies said there was no need for this as one could do in-place editing with perl or sed,

bug#13028: inplace

2012-11-29 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 11/29/2012 03:32 PM, Ruediger Meier wrote: On Thursday 29 November 2012, Reuben Thomas wrote: On Fri, 14 May 2004 15:53:04 +0600 (YEKST), Victor Porton offered his handy inplace script to coreutils, which runs a filter on a file in-place. A couple of replies said there was no need for this

bug#13028: inplace

2012-11-29 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 29 November 2012 15:35, Pádraig Brady p...@draigbrady.com wrote: I definitely think this is worthwhile. Great! Where to put such a script is an issue. We were thinking of a contrib/ folder for higher level scripts like this that could leverage coreutils/ Translations in the shell

bug#13028: inplace

2012-11-29 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 11/29/2012 07:03 PM, Reuben Thomas wrote: On 29 November 2012 15:35, Pádraig Brady p...@draigbrady.com wrote: I definitely think this is worthwhile. Great! Where to put such a script is an issue. We were thinking of a contrib/ folder for higher level scripts like this that could