posix: always seek to EOF when opening a file in append mode
Python 3 already does this, so skip it there.
Consider the program:
#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
FILE *f = fopen("narf", "w");
fprintf(f, "narf\n");
fclose(f);
f = fopen("narf", "a");
printf("%ld\n", ftell(f));
fprintf(f, "troz\n");
printf("%ld\n", ftell(f));
return 0;
}
on macOS, FreeBSD, and Linux with glibc, this program prints
5
10
but on musl libc (Alpine Linux and probably others) this prints
0
10
By my reading of
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/
009695399/functions/fopen.html
this is technically correct, specifically:
> Opening a file with append mode (a as the first character in the
> mode argument) shall cause all subsequent writes to the file to be
> forced to the then current end-of-file, regardless of intervening
> calls to fseek().
in other words, the file position doesn't really matter in append-mode
files, and we can't depend on it being at all meaningful unless we
perform a seek() before tell() after open(..., 'a'). Experimentally
after a .write() we can do a .tell() and it'll always be reasonable,
but I'm unclear from reading the specification if that's a smart thing
to rely on. This matches what we do on Windows and what Python 3 does
for free, so let's just be consistent. Thanks to Yuya for the idea.
$ cat >> $HGRCPATH << EOF
> [extensions]
> absorb=
> EOF
Abort absorb if there is an unfinished operation.
$ hg init abortunresolved
$ cd abortunresolved
$ echo "foo1" > foo.whole
$ hg commit -Aqm "foo 1"
$ hg update null
0 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ echo "foo2" > foo.whole
$ hg commit -Aqm "foo 2"
$ hg --config extensions.rebase= rebase -r 1 -d 0
rebasing 1:c3b6dc0e177a "foo 2" (tip)
merging foo.whole
warning: conflicts while merging foo.whole! (edit, then use 'hg resolve --mark')
unresolved conflicts (see hg resolve, then hg rebase --continue)
[1]
$ hg --config extensions.rebase= absorb
abort: rebase in progress
(use 'hg rebase --continue' or 'hg rebase --abort')
[255]