Re: [Devil-linux-develop] Bugs in upgrade-config.

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

>> > Heiko, At the end of upgrade-config, you added something like:
>> >
>> >   cat newconfig/etc/inittab | sed .... > newconfig/etc/inittab
>> >
>> > I suspected that a SMP box was wiping out inittab before sed got to do
>> > it's thing, and sure enough.  This works fine:
>>
>> Interesting effect....
>
> Yeah, I've seen similar problems in the past.  I never modify a file in
> a pipe and redirect it back to itself.  I hope you don't do that in too
> many other programs.  :-/

Usually I work with a temporary file, but thought in this case it would
work fine...
Another example that we should leave the thinking to the horses, they have
the bigger head. ;-)

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  Heiko Zuerker
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