Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Aron Griffis <agriffis@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] sed "" file| cat > file
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 20:52:16
Message-Id: 20011111215256.A25634@yde.flatmonk.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] sed "" file| cat > file by jano
1 jano wrote: [Sun Nov 11 2001, 09:49:49PM EST]
2 > I don't understand why this works for some and not for others; is it an
3 > issue of system performance?
4
5 It's a race condition, and it should never be done. Instead, ebuild
6 authors should use dosed, which is exactly for this purpose.
7
8 dosed 's/foo/bar/' Makefile
9
10 Aron

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] sed "" file| cat > file Holger Brueckner <lists@××××××××.de>
Re: [gentoo-dev] sed "" file| cat > file Mikael Hallendal <hallski@g.o>