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.
#require execbit
$ umask 027
$ hg init test1
$ cd test1
$ touch a b
$ hg add a b
$ hg ci -m "added a b"
$ cd ..
$ hg clone test1 test3
updating to branch default
2 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ hg init test2
$ cd test2
$ hg pull ../test1
pulling from ../test1
requesting all changes
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 1 changesets with 2 changes to 2 files
new changesets 22a449e20da5
(run 'hg update' to get a working copy)
$ hg co
2 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ chmod +x a
$ hg ci -m "chmod +x a"
the changelog should mention file a:
$ hg tip --template '{files}\n'
a
$ cd ../test1
$ echo 123 >>a
$ hg ci -m "a updated"
$ hg pull ../test2
pulling from ../test2
searching for changes
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 1 changesets with 0 changes to 0 files (+1 heads)
new changesets 7f4313b42a34
1 local changesets published
(run 'hg heads' to see heads, 'hg merge' to merge)
$ hg heads
changeset: 2:7f4313b42a34
tag: tip
parent: 0:22a449e20da5
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: chmod +x a
changeset: 1:c6ecefc45368
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: a updated
$ hg history
changeset: 2:7f4313b42a34
tag: tip
parent: 0:22a449e20da5
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: chmod +x a
changeset: 1:c6ecefc45368
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: a updated
changeset: 0:22a449e20da5
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: added a b
$ hg -v merge
resolving manifests
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
(branch merge, don't forget to commit)
$ cat a
123
$ [ -x a ]
$ cd ../test3
$ echo 123 >>b
$ hg ci -m "b updated"
$ hg pull ../test2
pulling from ../test2
searching for changes
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 1 changesets with 0 changes to 0 files (+1 heads)
new changesets 7f4313b42a34
(run 'hg heads' to see heads, 'hg merge' to merge)
$ hg heads
changeset: 2:7f4313b42a34
tag: tip
parent: 0:22a449e20da5
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: chmod +x a
changeset: 1:dc57ead75f79
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: b updated
$ hg history
changeset: 2:7f4313b42a34
tag: tip
parent: 0:22a449e20da5
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: chmod +x a
changeset: 1:dc57ead75f79
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: b updated
changeset: 0:22a449e20da5
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
summary: added a b
$ hg -v merge
resolving manifests
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
(branch merge, don't forget to commit)
$ ls -l ../test[123]/a > foo
$ cut -b 1-10 < foo
-rwxr-x---
-rwxr-x---
-rwxr-x---
$ hg debugindex a
rev linkrev nodeid p1 p2
0 0 b80de5d13875 000000000000 000000000000
$ hg debugindex -R ../test2 a
rev linkrev nodeid p1 p2
0 0 b80de5d13875 000000000000 000000000000
$ hg debugindex -R ../test1 a
rev linkrev nodeid p1 p2
0 0 b80de5d13875 000000000000 000000000000
1 1 7fe919cc0336 b80de5d13875 000000000000
$ cd ..