[Bug-ddrescue] Re: feature request: write in the logfile, if it can't be deleted

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Hello Ariel.

The Right Thing (TM) to do in this case is to make a copy of the logfile 
before resuming the rescue as a different user.

But I like the idea of leaving things as consistent as possible. I'll 
probably implement it.

Regards,
Antonio.


Ariel wrote:
> If the logfile can't be deleted, please at least indicate in the logfile
> that the recovery was complete. (One line 0x0 0x0 0 I guess.)
>
> Or for simplicity, always write the logfile, even if the recovery is
> complete, and then make the attempt to delete it. (That way you don't need
> two different blocks of code that write data to the logfile.)
>
> This just happened to me; the logfile was created by one user, but I
> continued the recovery using a different user (and chmod'd the files so
> that the other user could write to it) but he couldn't delete it.