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

[Janis Papanagnou]

Hi Andy!

> In the future, can you please group-reply to CC the mailing list?

As the discussion went I considered the issue already closed. (If you think
my replies to your comments are nonetheless of some use to the bug-list
I want to suggest to set 'reply-to' in the mail header which is, I think, the
standard procedure exactly for that purpose. It's certainly easier than to
ask every poster.)

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> >
> > Now, according to the implemented
> > 'inplace' logic, I have to add an explicit `print` statement just to re-write the
> > file with the same contents it had before... - also not a great solution. :-/
>
> I agree that this is an inelegant solution. If I were you, I'd load the
> map file using getline in a BEGIN rule.

You can't be serious suggesting to add a clumsy getline loop as a substitute.
Using getline is an even more ugly hack for something where there's a neat
standard idiom (if I avoid 'inplace'). But thanks anyway for your involvement.

I recognize I have to work around the issue anyway in some way, so I can as
well maintain POSIX standard conformance and avoid this GNU awk specific
feature if it doesn't provide any advantage - or rather, if we have to pay for
one advantage by other disadvantages.

Regards,
Janis