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Authored by vangyzen on Sep 7 2016, 6:00 PM.
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Summary

When using diff3 to perform a three-way merge, etcupdate lost the destination
file's metadata. The metadata from the temporary file were used instead.
This was unpleasant for rc.d scripts, which require execute permission.
Use "cat >" to overwrite the destination file's contents while preserving its
metadata.

Test Plan

All kyua tests still pass, although they don't test this case.

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vangyzen retitled this revision from to etcupdate: preserve the metadata of the destination file.
vangyzen updated this object.
vangyzen edited the test plan for this revision. (Show Details)
vangyzen added reviewers: jhb, bapt.
bapt edited edge metadata.
This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Sep 8 2016, 3:49 PM
This revision was automatically updated to reflect the committed changes.