Systemd/src/tmpfiles
Lennart Poettering 49e87292dc tmpfiles: make "f" lines behaviour match what the documentation says
CHANGE OF BEHAVIOUR — with this commit "f" line's behaviour is altered
to match what the documentation says: if an "argument" string is
specified it is written to the file only when the file didn't exist
before. Previously, it would be appended to the file each time
systemd-tmpfiles was invoked — which is not a particularly useful
behaviour as the tool is not idempotent then and the indicated files
grow without bounds each time the tool is invoked.

I did some spelunking whether this change in behaviour would break
things, but afaics nothing relies on the previous O_APPEND behaviour of
this line type, hence I think it's relatively safe to make "f" lines
work the way the docs say, rather than adding a new modifier for it or
so.

Triggered by:

https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2018-January/040171.html
2018-01-24 10:54:10 +01:00
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tmpfiles.c tmpfiles: make "f" lines behaviour match what the documentation says 2018-01-24 10:54:10 +01:00