posix: always seek to EOF when opening a file in append mode
Python 3 already does this, so skip it there.
Consider the program:
#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
FILE *f = fopen("narf", "w");
fprintf(f, "narf\n");
fclose(f);
f = fopen("narf", "a");
printf("%ld\n", ftell(f));
fprintf(f, "troz\n");
printf("%ld\n", ftell(f));
return 0;
}
on macOS, FreeBSD, and Linux with glibc, this program prints
5
10
but on musl libc (Alpine Linux and probably others) this prints
0
10
By my reading of
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/fopen.html
this is technically correct, specifically:
> Opening a file with append mode (a as the first character in the
> mode argument) shall cause all subsequent writes to the file to be
> forced to the then current end-of-file, regardless of intervening
> calls to fseek().
in other words, the file position doesn't really matter in append-mode
files, and we can't depend on it being at all meaningful unless we
perform a seek() before tell() after open(..., 'a'). Experimentally
after a .write() we can do a .tell() and it'll always be reasonable,
but I'm unclear from reading the specification if that's a smart thing
to rely on. This matches what we do on Windows and what Python 3 does
for free, so let's just be consistent. Thanks to Yuya for the idea.
$ hg init
$ touch a
$ hg add a
$ hg ci -m "a"
$ echo 123 > b
$ hg add b
$ hg diff --nodates
diff -r 3903775176ed b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/b
@@ -0,0 +1,1 @@
+123
$ hg diff --nodates -r tip
diff -r 3903775176ed b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/b
@@ -0,0 +1,1 @@
+123
$ echo foo > a
$ hg diff --nodates
diff -r 3903775176ed a
--- a/a
+++ b/a
@@ -0,0 +1,1 @@
+foo
diff -r 3903775176ed b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/b
@@ -0,0 +1,1 @@
+123
$ hg diff -r ""
hg: parse error: empty query
[255]
$ hg diff -r tip -r ""
hg: parse error: empty query
[255]
Remove a file that was added via merge. Since the file is not in parent 1,
it should not be in the diff.
$ hg ci -m 'a=foo' a
$ hg co -Cq null
$ echo 123 > b
$ hg add b
$ hg ci -m "b"
created new head
$ hg merge 1
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
(branch merge, don't forget to commit)
$ hg rm -f a
$ hg diff --nodates
Rename a file that was added via merge. Since the rename source is not in
parent 1, the diff should be relative to /dev/null
$ hg co -Cq 2
$ hg merge 1
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
(branch merge, don't forget to commit)
$ hg mv a a2
$ hg diff --nodates
diff -r cf44b38435e5 a2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/a2
@@ -0,0 +1,1 @@
+foo
$ hg diff --nodates --git
diff --git a/a2 b/a2
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/a2
@@ -0,0 +1,1 @@
+foo