[ic] log create=1 overwrites!! what is that about?

Jon Jensen interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com
Thu May 23 15:44:01 2002


On Thu, 23 May 2002, Paul Jordan wrote:

> I thought that IC would "create" the file, if it did not already exist, and
> if it did already exist, then it would simply append the new data.
> 
> Am I wrong in thinking that?

You are not wrong, but your presumption differed from what IC actually 
does. I may have expected the same thing you did. But there is some 
precedent for using the word this way, including C library usage and 
Apache's htpasswd (see the manpage).

Jon