# HG changeset patch
# User Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
# Date 1350159039 18000
# Node ID 9837cafc25b10c51659b65b5971622eab0bc9197
# Parent  a787e46d3b94ce127798f29d9e3d8e066c5813e8
vfs: use self.write to write symlink placeholders

The existing write() path is much more robust than the hand-rolled
version that was inlined here.

diff -r a787e46d3b94 -r 9837cafc25b1 mercurial/scmutil.py
--- a/mercurial/scmutil.py	Sun Oct 14 23:49:28 2012 +0200
+++ b/mercurial/scmutil.py	Sat Oct 13 15:10:39 2012 -0500
@@ -327,10 +327,7 @@
                 raise OSError(err.errno, _('could not symlink to %r: %s') %
                               (src, err.strerror), linkname)
         else:
-            f = self(dst, "w")
-            f.write(src)
-            f.close()
-            self._fixfilemode(dst)
+            self.write(dst, src)
 
     def audit(self, path):
         self.auditor(path)