Re: [bug-gawk] gawk - 'inplace' feature ignores file's access flags (read-only)

[Assaf Gordon]

Hello,

On 06/10/2015 10:28 AM, Johannes Meixner wrote:
> On Jun 10 08:35 Andrew J. Schorr wrote (excerpt):
> > On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 01:08:43PM +0200, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
> > > The 'inplace' feature ignores access flags of files; if the
> > > file is write protected it will nonetheless be overwritten.
<...>
> Regardless how it is actually implemented, I think
> it is a valid question what one could normaly expect
> from an 'inplace' feature when on the one hand the user
> has run a tool to replace the file's content but on the
> other hand the file permissions are contradicting.

Somewhat related:
An interesting and useful overview of how to replace a file inplace written by 
Pádraig Brady:

  http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/unix_file_replacement.html

while it deals with shell commands to replace a file, but the lessons might be 
useful here too.