/* Take care of noclobber mode. */
if (Cflag) {
fname = redir->nfile.expfname;
if (stat64(fname, ) < 0) {
if ((f = open64(fname,
O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, 0666)) < 0)
Also, inspecting bash code, this seems to be code to figure out if the
file was changed from a non-regular file to a regular file between the
stat and the open, so I'd say it's indeed a bug, but the problem is
not the &&, but testing the wrong return code.
>From bash redir.c
631 /* OK, the
I see the change was introduced here
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/utils/dash/dash.git/commit/?id=f78674ed6f95b594dcac0e96d6a76c5f64aa2cbf,
by importing code from FreeBSD's sh.
What I find interesting is testing the contents of 'sb', when the
fstat64 call failed. FreeBSD's code has the opposite:
