Re: CVS commit: src

[Jim Wise <jwise%unicast.com@localhost>]

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On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Christos Zoulas wrote:

>Module Name:   src
>Committed By:  christos
>Date:          Thu Feb  4 11:56:49 UTC 1999
>
>Modified Files:
>       src/usr.bin/xinstall: install.1 xinstall.c
>Log Message:
>PR/2936: Brian C. Grayson: Avoid truncating precious files when installing
>and the filesystem is full. Added -r flag to install, which installs on
>a temporary file and then renames to the final destination.

Cool!  Is it perhaps reasonable to make this the default behavior of
install?  When would we not want this (other than when installing
extremely large files)?

- -- 
                                Jim Wise
                                jwise%unicast.com@localhost

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