Re: [5.3-alpha] ">& /some/file" would fail when /some/file already exists

[Grisha Levit]

On Thu, Apr 25, 2024 at 6:05 PM Grisha Levit <grishalevit@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 25, 2024, 14:55 Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:
>>
>> On 4/25/24 12:18 PM, Clark Wang wrote:
>> > (I'm using the "devel" branch as the "bash-5.3-testing" branch failed
>> > to build for me. HEAD: 8c8daff1e3661c)
>> >
>> > To reproduce:
>> >
>> > $ bash53 --norc
>> > bash53-5.3# touch /tmp/file
>> > bash53-5.3# echo >& /tmp/file
>> > bash53: /tmp/file: File exists
>> > bash53-5.3#
>>
>> I can't reproduce it on macOS.
>>
> Seems to happen if the target is a symlink:
>
> $ rm -f bar foo
> $ ln -s bar foo
> $ >& foo
> bash: foo: File exists

Actually, I see this on Ubuntu 22.04 but not on macOS.