[bug #61050] Early abort should not write 0 Byte output file

[Darshit Shah]

Update of bug #61050 (project wget):

                  Status:                    None => Invalid                
             Open/Closed:                    Open => Closed                 

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Follow-up Comment #1:

Sorry, this is documented behaviour and will not be changed in Wget. The
manual explicitly states that the -O option is equivalent to the shell
redirection operator ">". Thus, creating / truncating an existing file to 0
bytes immediately is the correct behaviour.

I completely understand where you are coming from. I don't like this either.
But this has been the documented behaviour for many  many years now and
multiple scripts rely on it to be so. As a result, the default will not be
changed in the interests of backwards compatibility.

GNU Wget2, the next major version of Wget changes the meaning of -O and
functions exactly as you described / expected it to. It was the first breaking
change I introduced in there :)

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